怡然自得: happy and content (idiom)...
近代: the not-very-distant past, modern times, excluding recent decades, (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to919), capitalis...
支撑: to prop up, to support, strut, brace...
散布: to disseminate...
预先: beforehand, in advance...
心甘情愿: delighted to (do sth, idiom), perfectly happy to do, most willing to do...
跟上: to catch up with, to keep pace with...
派遣: to send (on a mission), to dispatch...
