指点: to point out, to indicate, to give directions, to show how (to do sth), to censure, to pick at...
连年: successive years, over many years...
扣: button...
聘用: to employ, to hire...
市: market, city...
迫害: to persecute, persecution...
仿佛: to seem, as if, alike, similar...
运营: to be in operation, to do business, (of train, bus etc) to be in service, operation, service...
缓: slow, unhurried, sluggish, gradual, not tense, relaxed, to postpone, to defer, to stall, to stave off, to revive, to recuperate...
精打细算: meticulous planning and careful accounting (idiom)...