1 surname Niu

1 cow's milk

2 classifier: 瓶 píng

3 classifier: 杯 bēi

1 broken

2 damaged

3 worn out

4 lousy

5 rotten

6 to break, split or cleave

7 to get rid of

8 to destroy

9 to break with

10 to defeat

11 to capture (a city etc)

12 to expose the truth of

1 prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity

2 old (of people)

3 venerable (person)

4 experienced

5 of long standing

6 always

7 all the time

8 of the past

9 very

10 outdated

11 (of meat etc) tough

1 (coll.) husband

1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom)

2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

1 one word says it all (idiom)

2 to hit the nail on the head

3 to be pithy and correct

1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom)

2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)

2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children

3 sandwich generation

1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)

2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle

3 it's either him or me