这句话怎么翻译,重点是括号里的.谢谢!
5.According to his own story, he had never fallen in love before and had never had an affair with a woman, for as a brilliant and highly sensitive young man, he had set his mark high. He was not particularly jovial or sociable, and the common, good-looking girls （about whom his young friends raved left him untouched）, although he confessed that when he saw a girl of distinguished looks or talent, he was deeply moved.