1 author

2 writer

3 classifier: 个 gè

1 tell-tale

2 informer (esp. to police)

3 whistleblower

4 grass

1 patient

2 sufferer

1 or

2 possibly

3 maybe

4 perhaps

1 finger

2 classifier: 个 gè

3 classifier: 只 zhī

1 a snap of the fingers (idiom); in a flash

2 in the twinkling of an eye

1 lit. 之[zhī], 乎[hū], 者[zhě] and 也[yě] (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions

1 to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom)

2 to know (a person, a place etc) inside out

1 The benevolent sees benevolence, the wise sees wisdom.

2 Different views are admissible. (idiom)

1 to make one's hair stand up in anger (idiom); to raise people's hackles