湖泊: lake...
比喻: to compare, to liken to, metaphor, analogy, figure of speech, figuratively...
富翁: rich person, millionaire, billionaire...
漫长: very long, endless...
不翼而飞: to disappear without trace, to vanish all of a sudden, to spread fast, to spread like wildfire...
守株待兔: to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits (idiom), to wait idly for opportunities, to trust to chance rather than show initiative...
利益: benefit, (in sb's) interest...
劝说: to persuade, persuasion, to advise...
简要: concise, brief...
命题: proposition (logic, math.), to assign an essay topic...
