拐杖: crutches, crutch, walking stick...
竞选: to take part in an election, to run for office...
风光: scene, view, sight, landscape, to be well-regarded, to be well-off, grand (dialect), impressive (dialect)...
旁边: lateral, side, to the side, beside...
素养: (personal) accomplishment, attainment in self-cultivation...
先后: early or late, priority, in succession, one after another...
瘟疫: epidemic, plague, pestilence, diseased...
解脱: to untie, to free, to absolve of, to get free of, to extirpate oneself, (Buddhism) to free oneself of worldly worries...
