试探: to sound out, to probe, to feel out, to try out...
好在: luckily, fortunately...
少见: rare, not familiar (to the speaker), sth rarely experience, hard to see...
也好: that's fine, may as well, (reduplicated) regardless of whether... or....
认得: to recognize, to remember sth (or sb) on seeing it, to know...
亚军: second place (in a sports contest), runner-up...
公斤: kilogram (kg)...
简洁: concise, succinct, pithy...
兴趣: interest (desire to know about sth), interest (thing in which one is interested), hobby...
好歹: good and bad, most unfortunate occurrence, in any case, whatever...