耸: to excite, to raise up, to shrug, high, lofty, towering...
淡季: off season, slow business season, see also...
路边: curb, roadside, wayside...
俗: custom, convention, popular, common, coarse, vulgar, secular...
耐心: to be patient, patience...
牵涉: to involve, implicated...
旅店: inn, small hotel...
截止: to close, to stop, to put a stop to sth, cut-off point, stopping point, deadline...
株: tree trunk, stump (tree root), a plant, classifier for trees or plants, strain (biology), to involve others (in shady business)...
学业: studies, schoolwork...