Meanings

lame excuse

tight budget

to be distressed with debts

affliction

sour (wry) face

bitter experience

bitter medicine

have a pain in one's chest

after pleasure comes pain

strenuous pursuit of learning under difficulties

hardships and privations

worrying oneself (about)

stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot

to go through all sorts of hardships

pain

being arduous

hardships and privations

being arduous

hardships and joys

putting up a good fight against some odds