She had not yielded for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be.
尽管热带气候一般总是叫人慵懒无力,对她却丝毫没有影响。相反地,库特拉斯太太又神又世故,行动敏捷果断,在这种叫人昏昏欲睡的地带里,谁也想不到她有这么充沛的力。