当前: current, today's, modern, present, to be facing (us)...
性命: life...
灌溉: to irrigate...
独裁: dictatorship...
过滤: to filter, filter...
苦心: painstaking effort, to take a lot of trouble, laborious at pains...
深夜: very late at night...
所: actually, place, classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc, that which, particle introducing a relative clause or passive...
摔倒: to fall down, to slip and fall, to throw sb to the ground...
常人: ordinary person...
