丑恶: ugly, repulsive...
惊心动魄: shaking one to the core, extremely disturbing, hair-raising (idiom)...
此处: this place, here (literary)...
宏伟: grand, imposing, magnificent...
动不动: (typically followed by ) apt to (lose one's temper, catch a cold etc), at the drop of a hat...
惹祸: to stir up trouble, to invite disaster...
管辖: to administer, to have jurisdiction (over)...
融化: to melt, to thaw, to dissolve, to blend into, to combine, to fuse...
中心: center, heart, core...
边疆: border area, borderland, frontier, frontier region...
