南: south...
空调: air conditioning, air conditioner (including units that have a heating mode)...
画家: painter...
争先恐后: striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another...
生机: opportunity to live, to reprieve from death, life force, vitality...
关: (surname), mountain pass, to close, to shut, to turn off, to concern, to involve...
诀窍: secret, trick, knack, key...
之中: inside, among, in the midst of (doing sth), during...
大款: very wealthy person...
母亲: mother, also pr....
