适时: timely, apt to the occasion, in due course...
碰钉子: to meet with a rebuff...
缠: to wind around, to wrap round, to coil, tangle, to involve, to bother, to annoy...
系列: series, set...
电报: telegram, cable, telegraph...
招牌: signboard, shop sign, reputation of a business...
假: fake, false, artificial, to borrow, if, suppose...
北极: the North Pole, the Arctic Pole, the north magnetic pole...
成品: finished goods, a finished product...
名气: reputation, fame...