工夫: period of time (may be months, or mere seconds), spare time, skill, labor, effort...
蔑视: to loathe, to despise, contempt...
回信: to reply, to write back, letter written in reply...
引领: to crane one's neck, to await eagerly, to lead, to show the way...
雄伟: grand, imposing, magnificent, majestic...
幻影: phantom, mirage...
晴天: clear sky, sunny day...
器械: apparatus, instrument, equipment, weapon...
清明节: Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)...