扬: to raise, to hoist, the action of tossing or winnowing, scattering (in the wind), to flutter, to propagate...
听说: to hear (sth said), one hears (that), hearsay, listening and speaking...
幽默: (loanword) humor, humorous...
习俗: custom, tradition, local tradition, convention...
候选: candidate (attributive)...
正如: just as, precisely as...
事实: fact...
首: head, chief, first (occasion), first (thing), measure word for poems...
录音: to record (sound), sound recording...
瘦: thin, to lose weight, (of clothing) tight, (of meat) lean, (of land) unproductive...