1 many

2 a lot

3 not few

1 number

2 amount

3 somewhat

1 few

2 less

3 to lack

4 to be missing

5 to stop (doing sth)

6 seldom

1 early youth

2 youngster

3 (literary) youth

4 young man

1 illness

2 classifier: 场 cháng

3 disease

4 to fall ill

5 defect

1 to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)

1 long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)

1 no sign of human habitation (idiom); desolate

1 using the few to defeat the many (idiom); to win from a position of weakness

1 lit. many monks and not much gruel (idiom)

2 fig. not enough to go around

3 demand exceeds supply