凶恶: fierce, ferocious, fiendish, frightening...
当今: current, present, now, nowadays...
过剩: surplus, excess...
遭殃: to suffer a calamity...
夜里: during the night, at night, nighttime...
项: back of neck, item, thing, term (in a mathematical formula), sum (of money), classifier for principles, items, clauses, tasks, research projects etc...