危急: critical, desperate (situation)...
铭记: to engrave in one's memory...
秋季: autumn, fall...
西北: northwest...
随便: as one wishes, as one pleases, at random, negligent, casual, wanton...
捶: beat (with a stick or fist); bang; thump; pound...
地方: area, place, space, room, territory, locality...
资深: veteran (journalist etc), senior, highly experienced...
不由自主: can't help; involuntarily (idiom)...
吝啬: stingy, mean, miserly...