洗礼: baptism (or fig.)...
闻: to hear, news, well-known, famous, reputation, fame, to smell, to sniff at...
外贸: foreign trade...
盖: lid, top, cover, canopy, to cover, to conceal, to build...
太极: the Absolute or Supreme Ultimate, the source of all things according to some interpretations of Chinese mythology...
闭幕式: closing ceremony...
自相矛盾: to contradict oneself, self-contradictory, inconsistent...
赶到: to hurry (to some place)...
反面: reverse side, backside, the other side (of a problem etc), negative, bad...
战术: tactics...
