大学生: university student, college student...
不见得: not necessarily, not likely...
素材: source material (in literature and art)...
输家: loser (as opposed to winner )...
支柱: mainstay, pillar, prop, backbone...
含: to keep, to contain, to suck (keep in your mouth without chewing)...
旋涡: spiral, whirlpool, eddy, vortex...
答应: to answer, to respond, to answer positively, to agree, to accept, to promise...
被子: quilt...
转折: shift in the trend of events, turnaround, plot shift in a book, turn in the conversation...