赶赴: to hurry, to rush...
小说: novel, fiction...
改善: to make better, to improve...
老师: teacher...
一头: one head, a head full of sth, one end (of a stick), one side, headlong, directly, rapidly, simultaneously...
寻常: usual, common, ordinary...
倾听: to listen attentively...
能人: capable person, Homo habilis, extinct species of upright East African hominid...
人力: manpower, labor power...
紫: purple, violet...