莫斯科到Tambov也就是400多公里。

Implying a connection between knowledge and power, his travelogue makes Russian competitiveness in the imperial race contingent on greater public interest in travel, particularly seafaring. Goncharov gently rebuked the Russian homebodies with the example of English ladies, who nonchalantly traversed the globe and for whom a trip from India to London was about as daunting as one from Tambov to Moscow was for a Russian.
他的游记使俄国在帝国角逐中的竞争力取决于公众对旅行、尤其是航海的更大兴趣。
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作者是鼓励俄国人多出去走走，赞赏英国人周游世界。
但这个daunting似乎立场和全段不一致，nonchalantly也不好理解。

Goncharov gently rebuked the Russian homebodies with the example of English ladies, who nonchalantly traversed the globe and for whom a trip from India to London was about as daunting as one from Tambov to Moscow was for a Russian.
作者是鼓励俄国人多出去走走，赞赏英国人周游世界。
但这个daunting似乎立场和全段不一致，nonchalantly也不好理解。

人家English ladies ， from India to London 才有了点daunting的感觉，而那些Russian homebodies呢，from Tambov to Moscow就已经觉得很daunting了。Russian连English ladies都不如。
nonchalantly 优哉游哉

其实那些英国娘们儿那么可着到处跑是为了找对象
日不落产业遍布全球
国际日期变更线就是人家高速上"欢迎您再来西半球"那个牌牌-都不是事儿(nonchalantly)
从印度到伦敦有多daunting
跟毛子从Тамбов到Москва一个样
哦对你刚才说哪里偏色来着？

逻辑上是一致的。意思是 小菜一碟

这只真老虎跟个玩具老虎一样吓人