风风雨雨: disturbances, rumours, groundless talk...
热潮: upsurge, popular craze...
大约: approximately, probably...
核: pit, stone, nucleus, nuclear, to examine, to check, to verify...
漫画: caricature, cartoon, Japanese manga...
凶恶: fierce, ferocious, fiendish, frightening...
晃: to sway, to shake, to wander about...
部长: head of a (government etc) department, section chief, section head, secretary, minister...
原料: raw material...
