1 to go to work

2 to be on duty

3 to start work

4 to go to the office

1 to finish work

2 to get off work

1 surname Zuo

1 surname Fang

1 house

2 building (single- or two-story)

3 apartment

4 room

5 classifier: 栋 dòng

6 classifier: 幢 zhuàng

7 classifier: 座 zuò

8 classifier: 套 tào

9 classifier: 间 jiān

1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)

2 spare the rod, spoil the child

1 lit. sitting at ease in a fishing boat despite wind and storm (idiom); to stay calm during tense situation

2 a cool head in a crisis

1 lit. don't sit under the eaves (where tiles may fall from the roof) (idiom); fig. keep out of danger

1 lit. to view the sky from the bottom of a well (idiom); ignorant and narrow-minded

1 to reap where one has not sown (idiom)