悬崖: precipice, overhanging cliff...
逐步: progressively, step by step...
右边: right side, right, to the right...
固定: to fix, to fasten, to set rigidly in place, fixed, set, regular...
开水: boiled water, boiling water...
据此: according to this, on the ground of the above, (formally introduces reported speech in writing)...
升级: to escalate (in intensity), to go up by one grade, to be promoted, to upgrade (computing)...
激发: to arouse, to stimulate, (physics) to excite...
船长: captain (of a boat), skipper...
转动: to rotate (about an axis), to revolve, to turn, to move in a circle, to gyrate...