抱怨 (bàoyuàn) means Complain (grievance). Below are 5 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他总是 抱怨 天气不好。
Tā zǒngshì bàoyuàn tiānqì bù hǎo.
He is always complaining about the weather.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 抱怨
与其 抱怨 ，不如想办法。
Yǔqí bàoyuàn, bùrú xiǎng bànfǎ.
Rather than complaining, think of a solution.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 抱怨
勤劳的人从不 抱怨 辛苦。
Qínláo de rén cóng bù bàoyuàn xīnkǔ.
Hard-working people never complain of the effort.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 勤劳
别成天 抱怨 ，多做点实事。
Bié chéngtiān bàoyuàn, duō zuò diǎn shíshì.
Stop complaining all day and do something useful.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 成天
光会 抱怨 的人没什么出息。
Guāng huì bàoyuàn de rén méi shénme chūxi.
Someone who can only complain will not get far.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 出息
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How is 抱怨 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 抱怨 (bàoyuàn, "Complain (grievance)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 抱怨 an HSK word?
Yes — 抱怨 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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