大都: for the most part, on the whole, metropolitan...
网球: tennis, tennis ball...
饼干: biscuit, cracker, cookie...
锋利: sharp (e.g. knife blade), incisive, to the point...
报答: to repay, to requite...
表述: to formulate, enunciation, to explain sth precisely...
传言: rumor, hearsay...
棍: stick, rod, truncheon...