干燥: to dry (of weather, paint, cement etc), desiccation, dull, uninteresting, arid...
填: to fill or stuff, (of a form etc) to fill in...
疾病: disease, sickness, ailment...
卷入: to be drawn into, to be involved in...
窘迫: poverty-stricken, very poor, hard-pressed, in a predicament, embarrassed...
污秽: nasty, sordid, filthy...
里程碑: milestone...
话剧: stage play, modern drama...
稀: rare, uncommon, watery, sparse...
此起彼伏: up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession, no sooner one subsides, the next arises, repeating continuously, occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, c...
