- to attend to; to care for (patients etc); to look after; to wait upon; to serve; also written 伏侍, see also 服事[fu2 shi4]
- minimal; extremely small
- to make (wine or spirits); (fig.) to lead to (a bad result)
- disaster
- the cutin skin of a horse's hoof; horseshoe
- horse rider; equestrian; jockey; bike rider
- to tire oneself out through overwork; to work oneself to death
- without a penny to one's name; penniless; stony-broke
- abundant; plenty
- kitchen; CL:間|间[jian1]
- to lose what one has just obtained (idiom)
- spinning and weaving
- to have a voracious desire for; to covet; greedy; corrupt
- food and drink
- greater than; bigger than; more than
- to correct (a bad habit etc)
- overweight (luggage)
- tea; tea plant; CL:杯[bei1],壺|壶[hu2]
- to guard against; to beware of
- leak; hole; gap; loophole
- to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down; to lower; to drop; deep; profound; heavy
- to beg; to go begging
- idiot; fool
- to host a banquet
- antique; curio
- to sell cheaply; sacrifice; low price; discount sale
- selling price
- (manufacturing, production etc) costs
- if
- expensive; costly
- a bargain; cheap goods
- short period of time; a moment
- seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
- poverty-stricken; very poor; hard-pressed; in a predicament; embarrassed
- to draw a lesson (from a setback)
- to absorb; to draw (a lesson, insight etc); to assimilate
- to take sth as a warning (idiom); to draw a lesson from a case where things turned out badly
- lit. food not filling the stomach (idiom); fig. poverty-stricken
- wife and children; wife
- satin; silk fabric
- velvet