转变: to change, to transform, shift, transformation...
斜: inclined, slanting, oblique, tilting...
萧条: bleak, desolate, (economic) depression or slump...
洋: ocean, vast, foreign, silver dollar or coin...
独一无二: unique and unmatched (idiom); unrivalled, nothing compares with it...
来宾: guest, visitor...
弟弟: younger brother...
遇到: to meet, to run into, to come across...
骂: abuse; call sb names; curse (at); swear (at)...
运河: canal...
