爱理不理: to look cold and indifferent, standoffish...
寥寥无几: just a very few (idiom); tiny number, not many at all, You count them on your fingers....
间隔: gap, interval, compartment, to divide, to separate, to leave a gap of (two weeks, three meters etc)...
此前: before this, before then, previously...
恩赐: favor, to give charity to sb out of pity...
新兴: (of markets, industries, infectious diseases etc) rising, emerging, in the ascendant...
