難句突破：

（１）But then, in 1963, Sylvia Plath, a young American poet whom he had first met at Cambridge University in 1956, and who became his wife in the summer of that year, committed suicide.

主體句式：But then Sylvia Plath committed suicide.

結構分析：這是一個同位語帶有定語從句的復合句。whom和who引導的兩個定語從句修飾a young American poet, 整體作為Sylvia Plath的同位語。

句子譯文：但是在1963年，西爾維亞·普拉斯自殺了，這個美國年輕詩人與他第一次見面是在1956年的劍橋大學，而當年夏天又成為了他妻子。

（2）These letters are filled with his wrestling with the consequences of being the part-private, part-public creature that he became, desperate to devote himself to his writing, and yet subject to endless invasions of his privacy.

主體句式：These letters are filled with his wrestling.

結構分析：這是一個簡單句，難點在于最后兩個形容詞詞組的成分（desperate to devote himself to his writing, and yet subject to endless invasions of his privacy）。這兩個形容詞詞組是用來修飾前面的名詞creature, 而creature后面緊跟著的that 引導的從句也是修飾它的定語從句。

句子譯文：這些信中處處都顯現出休斯因為自己成為半私人、半公開這么樣一個人物而心理反復掙扎，他渴望將自己奉獻給文字，但又時時受到私人空間受到侵襲的威脅。

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