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 tool

2 instrument

3 utensil

4 means (to achieve a goal etc)

1 wages

2 pay

3 classifier: 个 gè

4 classifier: 份 fèn

5 classifier: 月 yuè

1 surname Shui

1 lit. as clear as water (idiom)

2 fig. (of officials etc) honest and incorruptible

1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)

2 fig. to be impartial

1 honest and trustworthy (idiom)

1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)

2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business

3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)

1 lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts