烘干: to dry over a stove...
迷惑不解: to feel puzzled...
子女: children, sons and daughters...
负有: to be responsible for...
机票: air ticket, passenger ticket...
办事: to handle (affairs), to work...
作客: to live somewhere as a visitor, to stay with sb as a guest, to sojourn...
膳食: meal...
这: this, these, (commonly pr. before a classifier, esp. in Beijing)...
下旬: last third of the month...