技能: technical ability, skill...
正: Chinesest month of year, just (right), main, upright, straight, correct, principle...
逢: to meet by chance, to come across, (of a calendar event) to come along, (of an event) to fall on (a particular day), to fawn upon...
拣: to choose, to pick, to sort out, to pick up...
凭: to lean against, to rely on, on the basis of, no matter (how, what etc), proof...
回顾: to look back, to review...
看上去: it would appear, it seems (that)...
沙漠: desert...
抚养: to foster, to bring up, to raise...
有声有色: having sound and color (idiom); vivid, dazzling...
