饥饿: hunger, starvation, famine...
一事无成: to have achieved nothing, to be a total failure, to get nowhere...
气球: balloon...
远处: distant place...
打折: to give a discount...
提速: to increase the specified cruising speed, to pick up speed, to speed up...
难为情: embarrassed...
…极了: extremely; exceedingly...
真实: true, real...
只要: if only, so long as...