回忆录: memoir...
辛苦: exhausting, hard, tough, arduous, to work hard, to go to a lot of trouble, hardship(s)...
海岸: coastal, seacoast...
否决: to veto, to overrule...
聚精会神: to concentrate one's attention (idiom)...
照相: to take a photograph...
不屑一顾: to disdain as beneath contempt (idiom)...
一直: straight (in a straight line), continuously, always, from the beginning of... up to..., all along...
学子: (literary) student, scholar...
博士: doctor, court academician (in feudal China), Ph.D....
