不聽老人言，吃虧在眼前

(idiom) ignore your elders at your peril

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

(literary pronunciation, still advocated in Taiwan) to rule / to sentence / to allow

to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])

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 / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough

old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents

person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

words / speech / to say / to talk

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]

to suffer losses / to come to grief / to lose out / to get the worst of it / to be at a disadvantage / unfortunately

deficiency / deficit / luckily / it's lucky that... / (often ironically) fancy that...

to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)

eye / small hole / crux (of a matter) / CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1] / classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc)

now / at the present

before one's eyes / now / at present

front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly