施加: to exert (effort or pressure)...
风水: feng shui, geomancy...
考: to check, to verify, to test, to examine, to take an exam, to take an entrance exam for, deceased father...
单: bill, list, form, single, only, sole, odd number...
聘请: to engage, to hire (a lawyer etc)...
释放: to release, to set free, to liberate (a prisoner), to discharge...
挥: to wave, to brandish, to command, to conduct, to scatter, to disperse...
汇集: to collect, to compile, to converge...
开工: to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation), to start a construction job...
以至: down to, up to, to such an extent as to..., also written...