饱汉不知饿汉饥
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The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
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Proverb谚语諺語 · Widely known
- Literally
- the well-fed man doesn't know the hungry man's hunger
- Meaning
- The comfortable don't understand the suffering of the poor. English: 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives'.
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