但是在1963年，西尔维亚·普拉斯自杀了，这个美国年轻诗人与他第一次见面是在1956年的剑桥大学，而当年夏天又成为了他妻子。

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.

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在艺术领域，诗人——特别是女诗人，好像最易患上精神疾病和走上自杀之路，这种趋势已被称为西尔维娅·普拉斯效应。

And within the arts, poets - especially female poets - seem to be the most vulnerable to mental illness and suicide, a tendency that has been dubbed the Sylvia Plath Effect.

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像西尔维亚·普拉斯这样的诗人可能英年早逝，但这并不等于我们应该在诗歌欣赏课上警告学生：诗歌威胁身心健康。

"The fact that a Sylvia Plath may die young does not necessarily mean an Introduction to Poetry class should carry a warning that poems may be hazardous to one's health, " he said.

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