时好时坏: sometimes good, sometimes bad...
烧: to burn, to cook, to stew, to bake, to roast, to heat, to boil (tea, water etc), fever, to run a temperature, (coll.) to let things go to one's head...
台风: hurricane, typhoon...
如何: how, what way, what...
宰: to slaughter livestock, to govern or rule, to cheat customers, imperial official in dynastic China...
要素: essential factor, key constituent...
座右铭: motto, maxim...
庙会: temple fair...
顾不得: unable to change sth, unable to deal with...
有效: effective, in effect, valid...
