艰辛: hardships, arduous, difficult...
观望: to wait and see, to watch from the sidelines, to look around, to survey...
黑色: black...
扒: to peel, to skin, to tear, to pull down, to cling to (sth on which one is climbing), to dig...
记忆犹新: to remain fresh in one's memory (idiom)...
方言: topolect, dialect...
伯伯: father's elder brother, uncle...
感想: impressions, reflections, thoughts...
