生靈塗炭

people are in a terrible situation (idiom)

to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student

(literary) the people / living thing / creature

quick / alert / efficacious / effective / to come true / spirit / departed soul / coffin

to apply (paint etc) / to smear / to daub / to blot out / to scribble / to scrawl / (literary) mud / street

extreme distress / in utter misery

wood charcoal / coal