狗改不了吃屎

lit. a dog can't stop himself from eating shit (idiom) / fig. bad habits are hard to change

(completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) / (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)

to finish / to achieve / variant of 瞭|了[liao3] / to understand clearly

(of eyes) bright / clear-sighted / to understand clearly

unofficial variant of 瞭[liao4]

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])

variant of 吃[chi1]

dog / CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]

to change / to alter / to transform / to correct

stool / feces / ear wax / nasal mucus

no thanks (used to politely but informally decline)

unable to / without end

(as a resultative verb suffix) unable to (do sth) / (pattern: {verb} + 個|个[ge5] + ~) without end; incessantly