事态: situation, existing state of affairs...
治病: to treat an illness...
山脉: mountain range...
范畴: category...
捞: to fish up, to dredge up...
时好时坏: sometimes good, sometimes bad...
美德: virtue...
基地: base (of operations), industrial or military base, al-Qaeda...
提到: to mention, to raise (a subject), to refer to...
扮演: to play the role of, to act...
