瓜分: to partition, to divide up...
笔: pen, pencil, writing brush, to write or compose, the strokes of Chinese characters, classifier for sums of money, deals...
历时: to last, to take (time), period, diachronic...
沧桑: great changes, ups and downs, vicissitudes, abbr. of...
棋子: chess piece, a pawn (used by others for their own purposes)...
捅: to stab, to poke, to prod, to nudge, to disclose...
贴: strip...
了不起: amazing, terrific, extraordinary...
符合: in keeping with, in accordance with, tallying with, in line with, to agree with, to accord with, to conform to, to correspond with, to manage, to handle...
膨胀: to expand, to inflate, to swell...
