描绘: to describe, to portray...
功底: training in the basic skills, knowledge of the fundamentals...
挂号: to register (at a hospital etc), to send by registered mail...
红灯: red light...
来电: incoming telephone call (or telegram), to phone in, to send in a telegram, to have an instant attraction to sb, to come back (of electricity, after an outage)...
当选: to be elected, to be selected...
投降: to surrender, surrender...
竭尽全力: to spare no effort (idiom); to do one's utmost...
出厂: to leave the factory (of finished goods)...