做工夫

to practice (work skills)

to make; to produce / to write; to compose / to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for / to assume (an air or manner)

to work with one's hands / manual work / workmanship

work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor

(old) laborer

period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort

husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)

(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)