小说: novel, fiction...
之内: inside, within...
执意: to be determined to, to insist on...
学位: academic degree, place in school...
兼: double, twice, simultaneous, holding two or more (official) posts at the same time...
难: disaster, distress, to scold, corner (sb); put sb in a difficult position; put sb on the spot...
夜以继日: night and day (idiom); continuous strenuous effort...
代替: to replace, to take the place of...
抗拒: to resist, to defy, to oppose...
合资: joint venture...
