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 man

2 person

3 people

4 classifier: 个 gè

5 classifier: 位 wèi

1 life (one's time on earth)

1 other people

2 others

3 other person

1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)

2 fig. to ride on sb else's success

3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too

4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

1 a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)

1 nothing much changes (idiom); always the same

2 stuck in a rut

1 (idiom) to have one's words turn out to be (tragically) prophetic

1 a sudden shower towards the end of summer brings an abrupt arrival of autumn (idiom)