1 staff

2 personnel

3 employee

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 wages

2 pay

3 classifier: 个 gè

4 classifier: 份 fèn

5 classifier: 月 yuè

1 government

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 artificial

2 manpower

3 manual work

1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)

1 to skimp on the job and stint on materials (idiom)

2 jerry-building

3 sloppy work

1 honest and industrious government functionaries (idiom)

1 lit. to govern from behind the curtain

2 to rule in place of the emperor (idiom)

1 To do a good job, an artisan needs the best tools (idiom). Good tools are prerequisite to the successful execution of a job