度日如年

a day drags past like a year (idiom); time hangs heavy / time crawls when one is wretched

surname Nian

year / CL:個|个[ge4]

grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年[nian2]

as / as if / such as

abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan

sun / day / date, day of the month

to pass / to spend (time) / measure / limit / extent / degree of intensity / degree (angles, temperature etc) / kilowatt-hour / classifier for events and occurrences

to estimate / Taiwan pr. [duo4]

to pass one's days / to scratch out a difficult, meager existence