古董: curio, antique...
患: to suffer (from illness), to contract (a disease), misfortune, trouble, danger, worry...
漫长: very long, endless...
重建: to rebuild, to reestablish, reconstruction, rebuilding...
灾难: disaster, catastrophe...
竖: to erect, vertical, vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)...
查: to research, to check, to investigate, to examine, to refer to, to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)...
下班: to finish work, to get off work...
渣子: dregs, bits, dregs (of society)...
杆: stick, pole, lever, classifier for long objects such as guns...
