除外: to exclude, not including sth (when counting or listing), except for...
一成不变: nothing much changes (idiom); always the same, stuck in a rut...
耕地: arable land, to plow land...
椅子: chair...
皱: to wrinkle, wrinkled, to crease...
接待: to receive (a visitor), to admit (allow sb to enter)...
暴雨: torrential rain, rainstorm...
听: (literary pronunciation, still advocated in Taiwan) to rule, to sentence, to allow...
飙升: to rise rapidly, to soar...
解体: to break up into components, to disintegrate, to collapse, to crumble...
