掌握: to grasp (often fig.), to control, to seize (initiative, opportunity, destiny), to master, to know well, to understand sth well and know how to use it, fluency...
反感: to be disgusted with, to dislike, bad reaction, antipathy...
劝阻: to advise against, to dissuade...
短信: text message, SMS...
西医: Western medicine, a doctor trained in Western medicine...
走投无路: to be at an impasse (idiom), in a tight spot, at the end of one's rope, desperate...
一心一意: concentrating one's thoughts and efforts, single-minded, bent on, intently...
上门: to drop in, to visit, to lock a door, (of a shop) to close, to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family...
辣椒: hot pepper, chili...
卡片: card...
