食客 (shí) — restaurant customer, diner; (historical) dependent advisor or hanger-on on an aristocrat

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Exemplos

• 这家餐厅的食客很多，周末经常要排队。
  Zhè jiā cān tīng de shí hěn duō, zhōu mò jīng cháng yào pái duì.
  This restaurant has many customers; on weekends there's often a queue.
• 他像古代的食客一样，靠别人的资助生活。
  Tā xiàng gǔ dài de shí yí yàng, kào bié rén de zī zhù shēng huó.
  He lives off other people's support, like a feudal hanger-on.
• 那个历史剧里养了许多食客，为他出谋划策。
  Nà ge lì shǐ jù lǐ yǎng le xǔ duō shí, wèi tā chū móu huà cè.
  In that historical drama, he kept many dependent advisors who gave him counsel.