1 mission

2 assignment

3 task

4 duty

5 role

6 classifier: 项 xiàng

7 classifier: 个 gè

1 to serve

2 service

3 classifier: 项 xiàng

1 to ask

2 to invite

3 please (do sth)

4 to treat (to a meal etc)

5 to request

1 attendant on an airplane, train, boat etc

1 (political, economic etc) affairs

2 work

3 transaction (as in a computer database)

1 to show no understanding of the times (idiom); cannot adapt to current circumstances

2 not amenable to reason

1 hardwork and thriftiness are the foundations of service (idiom)

1 please find sb better qualified than me (idiom)

1 lit. please Sir, get into the boiling pot (idiom)

2 fig. to give sb a taste of his own medicine

1 Only an outstanding talent can recognize current trends (idiom). A wise man submits to circumstances.