失事: (of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc), to mess things up...
钢铁: steel...
反过来: conversely, in reverse order, in an opposite direction...
螺丝: screw...
树梢: the tip of a tree, treetop...
欣欣向荣: (idiom) flourishing, thriving...
白色: white, reactionary, anti-communist...
迟钝: slow in one's reactions, sluggish (in movement or thought)...
带队: to lead a team, to lead a group, group leader, (tourism) tour guide...
普通话: Mandarin (common language), Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language), ordinary speech...