其实: actually, in fact, really...
讨好: to get the desired outcome, to win favor by fawning on sb, to curry favor with, a fruitful outcome to reward one's labor...
桩: stump, stake, pile, classifier for items...
高潮: high tide, high water, upsurge, climax, orgasm, chorus (part of a song)...
规模: scale, scope, extent...
回扣: brokerage, a commission paid to a middleman, euphemism for a bribe, a kickback...
天平: scales (to weigh things)...
岔: fork in road, bifurcation, branch in road, river, mountain range etc, to branch off, to turn off, to diverge, to stray (from the path), to change the subject, to interrupt, to stagger (times)...
疏通: to unblock, to dredge, to clear the way, to get things flowing, to facilitate, to mediate, to lobby, to explicate (a text)...
苦尽甘来: bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning...
