what dosen\\\'t kill you will only make you stronger

Chinese translation: 磨难使人坚强

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English term or phrase:what dosen\\\'t kill you will only make you stronger
Chinese translation:磨难使人坚强
Entered by: Xiaoping Fu

22:47 Mar 26, 2002
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English term or phrase: what dosen\\\'t kill you will only make you stronger
what dosen't kill you will only make you stronger.

how is this spelled out in Chinese
paul summers
磨难使人坚强
Explanation:
磨难使人坚强(monan shi ren jianqiang)
磨难(mo2 nan4) = tribulation
使人(shi3 ren2) = making people to be...
坚强(jian1 qiang2) = stronger or tougher

or more literally:

大难不死,必更坚强(dannan busi, bi geng jianqiang)
大难(da4 nan4) = big disaster
不死(bu4 si3) = not died or survived
必(bi4) = must, necessarily
更(geng4) = more
坚强(jian1 qinag2) = strong
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Xiaoping Fu
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3磨难使人坚强
Xiaoping Fu
5 +1螟ぃゲΤ褐
Francis Fine
5抲擵巰抧帶岪惗
akinokaze
3筁碞穦跑眔璤Ё
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筁碞穦跑眔璤Ё


Explanation:
Hope it's what you are after.

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磨难使人坚强


Explanation:
磨难使人坚强(monan shi ren jianqiang)
磨难(mo2 nan4) = tribulation
使人(shi3 ren2) = making people to be...
坚强(jian1 qiang2) = stronger or tougher

or more literally:

大难不死,必更坚强(dannan busi, bi geng jianqiang)
大难(da4 nan4) = big disaster
不死(bu4 si3) = not died or survived
必(bi4) = must, necessarily
更(geng4) = more
坚强(jian1 qinag2) = strong


Xiaoping Fu
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螟ぃゲΤ褐


Explanation:
This is a popular, widely-used and time-tested phrase. A little stronger than what you gave, but nearly perfect translation. Exactly, it means: "When you surive a great disaster, there will be good fortune afterwards," or "Not dead (after) great disaster, there will certainly be good fortune (afterwards)."

Francis Fine
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Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese, Native in EnglishEnglish
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agree  zwcorp: exactly
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抲擵巰抧帶岪惗


Explanation:
抲擵巰抧: To be in a dying state (literally); To be in the worst possible state (figuratively)

帶岪惗: To be alive there after (literally); To survive and grow there after (figuratively)

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