任人宰割: to get trampled on (idiom), to be taken advantage of...
效应: effect (scientific phenomenon)...
不适: unwell, indisposed, out of sorts...
罢免: to remove sb from their post, to dismiss...
竟: unexpectedly, actually, to go so far as to, indeed...
学分: course credit...
秘书: secretary...
建筑物: building, structure, edifice...
啥: dialectal equivalent of...
绽放: to blossom...