宽松: to relax (policy), relaxed...
开支: expenditures, expenses, to spend money, (coll.) to pay wages...
敲门: to knock on a door...
一口气: one breath, in one breath, at a stretch...
培养: to cultivate, to breed, to foster, to nurture, to educate, to groom (for a position), education, fostering, culture (biology)...
浩劫: calamity, catastrophe, apocalypse...
难道: don't tell me..., could it be that...?...
基础: base, foundation, basis, underlying...
戏曲: Chinese opera...
重返: to return to...