诗人: bard, poet...
角逐: to tussle, to contend, to contest...
学业: studies, schoolwork...
赞不绝口: to praise without cease (idiom); praise sb to high heaven, to praise without cease (idiom); praise sb to high heaven...
机制: machine processed, machine made, mechanism...
好比: to be just like, can be compared to...
瘫: paralyzed...
适用: to be applicable...
流浪: to drift about, to wander, to roam, nomadic, homeless, unsettled (e.g. population), vagrant...
危险: danger, dangerous...