荒凉: desolate...
短裤: short pants, shorts...
出席: to attend, to participate, present...
父女: father and daughter...
不以为然: not to accept as correct (idiom); to object, to disapprove, to take exception to...
光环: halo, ring of light...
闪烁: flickering, twinkling, evasive, vague (of speech)...
一举一动: every movement, each and every move...
岔: fork in road, bifurcation, branch in road, river, mountain range etc, to branch off, to turn off, to diverge, to stray (from the path), to change the subject, to interrupt, to stagger (times)...
不止: incessantly, without end, more than, not limited to...