历届: all previous (meetings, sessions etc)...
发愤图强: to be strongly determined to succeed (idiom)...
妨碍: to hinder, to obstruct...
回去: to return, to go back...
要求: to request, to require, requirement, to stake a claim, to ask, to demand...
闪烁: flickering, twinkling, evasive, vague (of speech)...
初级: junior, primary...
茶道: Japanese tea ceremony, sado...
垫: pad, cushion, mat, to pad out, to fill a gap, to pay for sb, to advance (money)...
够呛: unbearable, terrible, enough, unlikely...