拍板: clapper-board, auctioneer's hammer, to beat time with clappers...
会面: to meet with, meeting...
房子: house, building (single- or two-story), apartment, room...
苦: bitter, hardship, pain, to suffer, to bring suffering to, painstakingly...
下班: to finish work, to get off work...
防: to protect, to defend, to guard against, to prevent...
北方: north, the northern part a country, China north of the Yellow River...
展望: outlook, prospect, to look ahead, to look forward to...
眉开眼笑: brows raised in delight, eyes laughing (idiom); beaming with joy, all smiles...
