| 困境 | kùn jìng | predicament / plight |   |
| 田地 | tián dì | field / farmland / cropland / plight / extent | |
| 苦情 | kǔ qíng | wretched situation / plight / wretched / miserable | |
| 颠沛流离 | diān pèi liú lí | homeless and miserable (idiom) / to wander about in a desperate plight / to drift | |
| 穷途末路 | qióng tú mò lù | lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom) / an impasse / in a plight with no way out / things have reached a dead end | |
| 脱离苦海 | tuō lí kǔ hǎi | to escape from the abyss of suffering / to shed off a wretched plight | |
| 苦况 | kǔ kuàng | wretched state / miserable plight | |
| 种族隔离南非境内黑人妇女的困境 | | The Plight of Black Women in Apartheid South Africa | |
| 何不食肉糜 | hé bù shí ròu mí | lit. "Why don't they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝[Jin4 Hui4 di4] when told that his people didn't have enough rice to eat) / fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people's plight | |
