局面: aspect, phase, situation...
头条: lead story (on the news)...
抗衡: to compete with, to vie with, to counter...
线索: trail, clues, thread (of a story)...
风餐露宿: brave the wind and dew, stand exposure, deprivation and hunger, go through the rigors of living in the wilderness, exposed to cold and wet on a journey...
干脆: candid, direct and to the point, simply, just, might as well...
一目了然: obvious at a glance (idiom)...
归纳: to sum up, to summarize, to conclude from facts, induction (method of deduction in logic)...
看出: to make out, to see...
看管: to look after...