竞选: to take part in an election, to run for office...
傲: proud, arrogant, to despise, unyielding, to defy...
曰: to speak, to say...
药方: prescription...
息息相关: closely bound up (idiom); intimately related...
武力: military force...
称: to weigh, to state, to name, name, appellation, to praise...
族: race, nationality, ethnicity, clan, by extension, social group (e.g. office workers )...
那时候｜那时: at that time...
蒜: garlic...
