连年: successive years, over many years...
坚硬: hard, solid...
联想: to associate (cognitively), to make an associative connection, mental association, word prediction and auto-complete functions of input method editing programs...
沾: infected by, moisten, receive favors, moisten...
大厦: (used in the names of grand buildings such as Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or Empire State Building etc)...
潜移默化: imperceptible influence, to influence secretly...
好吃: to be fond of eating, to be gluttonous...
深信: to believe firmly...
女子: woman, female...
探望: to visit, to call on sb, to look around...