多少 duōshǎo

1. duōshǎo pronoun number; amount; how much; how many
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity , Concept: Interrogative Pronoun 疑问代词
   Notes: Used to form a question by replacing a constituent (CCD '多少' 1; Sun 2006, loc. 1866)
2. duōshǎo noun very many; a large amount
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: In the sense of 很多 (CCD '多少' 2; Guoyu '多少' 2)
3. duōshǎo adverb more or less; somewhat
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: (CCD '多少' 3; Guoyu '多少' 3)

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• 食存五观; 1. 计功多少，量彼来处。 2. 忖己德行，全缺应供。3. 防心离过，不生瞋爱。 4. 正事良药，为疗形枯。5. 为成道业，应受此食。(食存五觀; 1. 計功多少，量彼來處。 2. 忖己德行，全缺應供。3. 防心離過，不生瞋愛。 4. 正事良藥，為療形枯。5. 為成道業，應受此食。) Five Meal Contemplations: 1. Assess the amount of work involved, weigh up the origins of the food; 2. Reflect on one’s own moral conduct, perfect or not, take this offering; 3. Safeguard the mind against all error, do not give rise to hatred or greed; 4. Regard this food as good medicine, so as to treat the weakened body; 5. In order to accomplish the Way, one deserves to accept this food
• 计功多少量彼来处(計功多少，量彼來處。) Assess the amount of work involved
• 古今多少事 都付笑谈中(古今多少事 都付笑談中) Laugh away all that has happened in the past and present.
• 了却人间多少事 笑开天下古今愁(了却人間多少事 笑開天下古今愁) See through the many mundane affairs, Laugh away sorrows past and present.
• 知彼佛劫数多少(知彼佛劫數多少) knows which Buddhas appeared in which kalpas

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多少有些 、 多多少少 、 也好不了多少

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