缩: to withdraw, to pull back, to contract, to shrink, to reduce, abbreviation, also pr....
触犯: to violate, to offend...
跟前: (of children, parents etc) at one's side, living with one...
乌黑: jet-black, dark...
堵: to block up (a road, pipe etc), to stop up (a hole), (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress, wall (literary), (classifier for walls)...
缕: strand, thread, detailed, in detail, classifier for wisps (of smoke, mist or vapor), strands, locks (of hair)...
意义: sense, meaning, significance, importance...
录音机: (tape) recording machine, tape recorder...
脱颖而出: to reveal one's talent (idiom), to rise above others, to distinguish oneself...
市民: city resident...
