1 matter

2 thing

3 item

4 work

5 affair

6 classifier: 件 jiàn

7 classifier: 桩 zhuāng

8 classifier: 回 huí

1 affair

2 matter

3 thing

4 business

5 classifier: 件 jiàn

6 classifier: 桩 zhuāng

1 undertaking

2 project

3 activity

4 (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause

5 publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation

6 career

7 occupation

8 classifier: 个 gè

1 -ly

2 structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct

1 landlord

2 landowner

3 host

1 to live miles apart (idiom)

1 failed and wiped over the floor (idiom); to fail utterly

2 a crushing defeat

3 beaten and in a hopeless position

1 lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom)

2 fig. to go to great lengths

3 to search heaven and earth

1 lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)

2 fig. to be at the end of one's rope

3 to be trapped in a hopeless situation

1 not understanding things (idiom); devoid of sense