教: religion, teaching, to make, to cause, to tell...
季节: time, season, period...
真诚: true, sincere, genuine...
探索: to explore, to probe...
枯燥: dry and dull, uninteresting, dry-as-dust...
恩赐: favor, to give charity to sb out of pity...
反而: instead, on the contrary, contrary (to expectations)...
机械: machine, machinery, mechanical, (old) cunning, scheming...