1 author

2 writer

3 classifier: 个 gè

1 tell-tale

2 informer (esp. to police)

3 whistleblower

4 grass

1 patient

2 sufferer

1 or

2 possibly

3 maybe

4 perhaps

1 to die

2 death

1 lit. 之[zhī], 乎[hū], 者[zhě] and 也[yě] (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions

1 runaway (idiom); desperate criminal

2 fugitive

1 country destroyed, its people annihilated (idiom); total destruction

1 lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom)

2 fig. to act belatedly

3 better late than never

4 to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted

1 lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom)

2 fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich