选举: to elect, election...
状态: state of affairs, state, mode, situation...
招数: move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts), gambit, trick, scheme, movement, same as...
出头: to get out of a predicament, to stick out, to take the initiative, remaining odd fraction after a division, a little more than...
凡是: each and every, every, all, any...
因此: thus, consequently, as a result...
停滞: stagnation, at a standstill, bogged down...
红薯: sweet potato...
打仗: to fight a battle, to go to war...
里: inside, internal, interior, village, within, inside, Chinese mile, neighborhood, li, a Chinese unit of length = one-half kilometer, hometown...
