水管: water pipe...
夫妻: husband and wife, married couple...
挤压: to squeeze, to press, to extrude...
比比皆是: can be found everywhere...
绝招: unique skill, unexpected tricky move (as a last resort), masterstroke, finishing blow...
以往: in the past, formerly...
大厦: (used in the names of grand buildings such as Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or Empire State Building etc)...
水壶: kettle, canteen, watering can...
投机: to speculate (on financial markets), opportunistic, congenial, agreeable...
相当于: equivalent to...