Her imagination was somewhat affected, and, had she been of a softer moral and intellectual fibre would have been still more so, by the strange and solitary anguish of her life.

• 奇特而孤独的生活的折磨，已经在一定程度上影响了她的思绪，倘若她精神上怯懦些，心理上脆弱些，这种影响就会更加严重。