Chinese–English

民不聊生

mín bù liáo shēng · min bu liao sheng

Same in simplified and traditional Chinese

Meaning

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The people have no way to make a living (idiom, from Record of the Grand Historian 史記 / 史记 (Shǐ jì))
no way of getting by

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