贯通: to link up, to thread together...
定居: to settle (in some city, country etc), to take up residence...
了不起: amazing, terrific, extraordinary...
牢骚: discontent, complaint, to complain...
丈夫: husband...
成立: to establish, to set up, to be tenable, to hold water...
工艺: arts and crafts, industrial arts...
以至: down to, up to, to such an extent as to..., also written...
火柴: match (for lighting fire)...
不像话: unreasonable, shocking, outrageous...