前期: preceding period, early stage...
前任: predecessor, ex-, former, ex (spouse etc)...
呆: foolish, stupid, expressionless, blank, to stay...
发表: to issue, to publish...
盒饭: meal in a partitioned box...
闻: to hear, news, well-known, famous, reputation, fame, to smell, to sniff at...
探望: to visit, to call on sb, to look around...
扮: to disguise oneself as, to dress up, to play (a role), to put on (an expression)...
火辣辣: painful heat, scorching, painful heat, rude and forthright, provocative, hot, sexy...
失明: to lose one's eyesight, to become blind, blindness...