熟练: practiced, proficient, skilled, skillful...
作家: author...
油: oil, fat, grease, petroleum, to apply tung oil, paint or varnish, oily, greasy, glib, cunning...
女婿: daughter's husband, son-in-law...
流浪: to drift about, to wander, to roam, nomadic, homeless, unsettled (e.g. population), vagrant...
实况: live (e.g. broadcast or recording), what is actually happening, scene, the real situation...
宣称: to assert, to claim...
殷勤: politely, solicitously, eagerly attentive...
获悉: to learn of sth, to find out, to get news...
耸立: to stand tall, to tower aloft...