降: to surrender, to capitulate, to subdue, to tame...
无所作为: attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing (idiom); without any initiative or drive, feckless...
格外: especially, particularly...
研究: research, a study, to research, to look into...
使得: usable, workable, feasible, doable, to make, to cause...
报亭: kiosk, newsstand...
雨: (literary) to rain, (of rain, snow etc) to fall, to precipitate, to wet...
下岗: to come off sentry duty, to lay off (a worker), laid-off...
中央: central, middle, center, central authorities (of a state)...
同时: at the same time, simultaneously...
