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<p><span style="color: rgb(139, 0, 0); font-family: NotoSansCJKsc; font-size: 22px;">好不容易</span>&#160;(<span class="pinyin">hǎo bù róngyì</span>) means "<b>very difficult</b>" or "<b>really not easy</b>." It is often used where the speaker wants to comment on the result of their hard work, something like "<b>It was really hard</b> for me do to do x, but then I realized y."</p>

  <h2 id="adverbial-structure-with-才">Adverbial Structure with&#160;<span style="color: rgb(255, 127, 80); font-family: NotoSansCJKsc; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal;">才</span></h2>

  <h3 id="structure">Structure</h3>

  <p>Sentences using&#160;<span class="hanzi">好不容易</span>&#160;are often followed by <a href="Expressing_lateness_with_&quot;cai&quot;" title="wikilink">才</a>, emphasizing the action has been completed later than expected. Strange as it might seem,&#160;<span class="hanzi">好容易</span>&#160;has the same meaning as&#160;<span class="hanzi">好不容易</span>, and can be used interchangeably.</p>

  <div class="jiegou">
    <div class="deux">Subj. +&#160;<span class="hanzist">好容易 / 好不容易 + 才</span>&#160;+ Verb，[Result Sentence]</div>
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  <h3 id="examples">Examples</h3>

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      <li><span class="hanzi">我们 好不容易 才做完这个项目，结果 合同 取消 了。</span>&#160;<span class="trans">With great difficulty, we finally finished this project. As a result, the contract is up.</span></li>

      <li><span class="hanzi">我 好不容易 才 到 市 中心， 却 发现 没 带 手机，只好 回去 拿。</span>&#160;<span class="trans">It took me a long time to reach the city center, then I realized I had forgotten my cell phone and had to go back and get it.</span></li>

      <li><span class="hanzi">金融 危机 之后 他 好不容易 才 找到 工作，现在 又 辞职 了。</span>&#160;<span class="trans">After the financial crisis, he had a hard time finding a job. Now he's resigning.</span></li>

      <li><span class="hanzi">我 好不容易 才 打通 了 银行 的 服务 热线。</span>&#160;&#160;<span class="trans">With great difficulty, they finally climbed to the top of the mountain.As a result,it started raining heavily.</span></li>

      <li><span class="hanzi">他们 好不容易 才 爬 到 了 山顶，结果 下起 了 大雨。</span>&#160;<span class="trans">They.</span></li>
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  <h2 id="adjectival-structure-without-才">Adjectival Structure (without&#160;<span class="hanzist">才</span>)</h2>

  <h3 id="structure-1">Structure</h3>

  <div class="jiegou">
    <div class="deux">Verb / [Verb Phrase] +&#160;<span class="hanzist">好容易 / 好不容易</span></div>
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  <p>In this structure one can only use “<span class="hanzi">好(不)容易</span>” to express “<b>with great difficulty</b>”. At the end of the sentence particles such as “<span class="hanzi">啊</span>” or “<span class="hanzi">哦</span>” will also often be used to emphasize emotion.</p>

  <h3 id="examples-1">Examples</h3>

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      <li><span class="hanzi">要 完成 这 个 大 项目好不容易 啊。</span>&#160;<span class="trans">Finishing this big project will not be an easy task.</span></li>

      <li><span class="hanzi">养 大 一 个 孩子 好不容易。</span>&#160;<span class="trans">Raising a child is not an easy thing to do.</span></li>

      <li><span class="hanzi">创办 一 个 公司 好不容易 啊。</span>&#160;<span class="trans">Starting a company isn't easy.</span></li>
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  <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>

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    <li><a href="Easy_to_do_something" title="wikilink">Easy to do something</a></li>

    <li><a href="Difficult_to_do_something" title="wikilink">Difficult to do something</a></li>
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  <h2 id="sources-and-further-reading">Sources and further reading</h2>

  <h3 id="books">Books</h3>

  <ul>
    <li>Boya Chinese Lower Intermediate 2 (<span class="hanzi">博雅汉语准中级加速篇</span>) (pp. 100，110-11)</li>

    <li><span class="hanzi">卓越汉语－公司实战篇</span> (p. 77-8) </li>
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