多次: many times, repeatedly...
风味: distinctive flavor, distinctive style...
南北: north and south, north to south...
仓促: all of a sudden, hurriedly...
需要: to need, to want, to demand, to require, requirement, need...
工地: construction site...
听讲: to attend a lecture, to listen to a talk...
巧妙: ingenious, clever, ingenuity, artifice...
大米: (husked) rice...
部长: head of a (government etc) department, section chief, section head, secretary, minister...
