缩水: to shrink (in the wash), to shrink (of profits etc)...
敢于: to have the courage to do sth, to dare to, bold in...
败坏: to ruin, to corrupt, to undermine...
欧洲: Europe, abbr. for...
主页: home page...
难说: hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict), cannot bring oneself to say it...
公元: CE (Common Era), Christian Era, AD (Anno Domini)...
千方百计: thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means...
本意: original idea, real intention, etymon...
烟囱: chimney...
