可笑: funny, ridiculous...
角色: role, character in a novel, persona, also pr....
不得不: have no choice or option but to, cannot but, have to, can't help it, can't avoid...
由此: hereby, from this...
幢: classifier for buildings, carriage curtain (old)...
转折: shift in the trend of events, turnaround, plot shift in a book, turn in the conversation...
此起彼伏: up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession, no sooner one subsides, the next arises, repeating continuously, occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, c...
特征: characteristic, diagnostic property, distinctive feature, trait...
男: male, Baron, lowest of five orders of nobility...
供不应求: supply does not meet demand...
