预言: to predict, prophecy...
无精打采: dispirited and downcast (idiom); listless, in low spirits, washed out...
急迫: urgent, pressing, imperative...
多数: majority, most...
倔强: stubborn, obstinate, unbending...
枯燥: dry and dull, uninteresting, dry-as-dust...
业余: in one's spare time, outside working hours, amateur (historian etc)...
之后: afterwards, following, later, after...
托付: to entrust...
晕: dizzy, halo, ring around moon or sun...