1 matter

2 thing

3 item

4 work

5 affair

6 classifier: 件 jiàn

7 classifier: 桩 zhuāng

8 classifier: 回 huí

1 affair

2 matter

3 thing

4 business

5 classifier: 件 jiàn

6 classifier: 桩 zhuāng

1 undertaking

2 project

3 activity

4 (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause

5 publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation

6 career

7 occupation

8 classifier: 个 gè

1 life (one's time on earth)

1 Mister (Mr.)

1 unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)

1 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved

2 many twists and turns to a story

3 one thing after another

1 a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life

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

2 fig. to be impartial

1 flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom); wide expanse of flat country