1 worker

2 workshop

3 (slang) troublesome

4 high-maintenance (person)

1 work (of art)

2 opus

3 classifier: 部 bù

4 classifier: 篇 piān

1 combat

2 to fight

1 school assignment

2 homework

3 work

4 task

5 operation

6 classifier: 个 gè

7 to operate

1 one's conduct

2 deed

3 activity

4 accomplishment

5 achievement

6 to act as

7 as (in the capacity of)

8 qua

9 to view as

10 to look upon (sth as)

11 to take sth to be

1 man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom)

2 one should constantly strive to make progress

1 to commit to the waters (idiom); to lose sth irrevocably

1 to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model

1 tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people

1 to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising

2 hoist by his own petard