Such solitary walks and scenes as that witnessed by Smith in the summer-house were frequent, but he courted her so intangibly that to any but such a delicate perception as Elfride's it would have appeared no courtship at all.

史密斯在墅里目睹的这种孤独的散步和场景是很常见的， 但他对她的追求是此无形， 以至于除了像埃尔弗里德这样敏锐的感知力之外， 任何人都本没有求爱。

So instead of always just talking about God completely intangibly, it kinda gave me a way to relate to it.

所以， 与其总是抽象地谈论上帝，这给了我一种与之联系的方式。