1 school assignment

2 homework

3 work

4 task

5 operation

6 classifier: 个 gè

7 to operate

1 to use

2 to employ

3 to apply

4 to make use of

1 to work

2 (of a machine) to operate

3 job

4 work

5 task

6 classifier: 个 gè

7 classifier: 份 fèn

8 classifier: 项 xiàng

1 to use

2 to employ

3 to have to

4 to eat or drink

5 expense or outlay

6 usefulness

7 hence

8 therefore

1 user

2 consumer

3 subscriber

4 customer

1 to do two things at once (idiom)

2 to multitask

3 to divide one's attention

1 to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties)

2 Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)

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