grammar - "What might have appalled us when we'd started our trip just a few days ago no longer impressed us much"


I came across this sentence from a book about a journalist:



What might have appalled us when we'd started our trip just a few days ago no longer impressed us much.



It is confusing for two reasons. It isn't clear how the different clauses fit together. Secondly impressed seems like an odd word to use here. It doesn't seem to fit according to the definitions from Google:



1. make (someone) feel admiration and respect.



Their performance impressed the judges



2. make a mark or design on (an object) using a stamp or seal.



The company should impress the cards with a stamp




... or the definition from Cambridge Dictionaries Online:



to ​cause someone to ​admire or ​respect you:



Maybe it does fit, but it is not clear how.


Can you explain this sentence?




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