途中: en route...
回升: to rise again after a fall, to pick up, rally (stock market etc)...
中庸: golden mean (Confucianism), (literary) (of person) mediocre, ordinary...
歼灭: to wipe out, to crush, to annihilate...
开垦: to clear a wild area for cultivation, to put under the plow...
导演: to direct, director (film etc)...
崛起: to rise abruptly (to a towering position), to tower over, to spring up, to emerge suddenly, the emergence (e.g. of a power)...
接连: on end, in a row, in succession...
