继父: stepfather...
撇: to throw, to cast, left-slanting downward brush stroke (calligraphy)...
南: south...
沉: to submerge, to immerse, to sink, to keep down, to lower, to drop, deep, profound, heavy...
利息: interest (on a loan)...
半真半假: (idiom) half true and half false...
层出不穷: more and more emerge, innumerable succession, breeding like flies (idiom)...
致力于: devote oneself to/hammer at/apply oneself to/bend oneself to/commit oneself to...
嫌弃: to regard with disdain, to shun...
腐化: to rot, to decay, to become corrupt...
