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By the age of just 22, influential novelist Virginia Woolf had already suffered two nervous breakdowns – brought on,
著名小說(shuō)家弗吉尼亞·伍爾夫在22歲之前，已經(jīng)歷過(guò)兩次精神崩潰
it’s believed, by the deaths of her mother and half-sister in quick succession, and then her father some years later.
據(jù)信，因其母及同母異父的姐姐相繼離世，她第一次精神崩潰，幾年后其父過(guò)世又引起了她第二次精神崩潰。
Unfortunately, the struggle didn’t end there for Virginia and she fought off numerous bouts of depression throughout her lifetime, until the very end.
不幸的是，弗吉尼亞的掙扎并未結(jié)束，她無(wú)數(shù)次與抑郁癥斗爭(zhēng)，直至生命盡頭。
One evening in March 1941, Virginia attempted to end her life by jumping into a river;
1941 年3 月的一天傍晚，弗吉尼亞試圖跳河自盡，
however, she failed and simply returned home, sodden.
自殺未遂的她全身濕透回到了家里。
Sadly, she persisted, and a few days later, on March 28th 1941, she tried again and this time succeeded in escaping a lifetime of mental illness.
很可惜，她沒(méi)有就此放棄，幾天后的1941年3月28日，她再次投河，這一次，她逃離了為精神疾病所困擾的一生。
On the day of her death, unaware of her whereabouts, Virginia’s husband, Leonard, discovered this heartbreaking letter on their mantelpiece.
弗吉尼亞自盡當(dāng)天，她的丈夫倫納德不知她的下落，在家里的壁爐臺(tái)上發(fā)現(xiàn)了這封令人心碎的信。
Her body was found weeks later in the River Ouse, the pockets of her coat filled with heavy rocks.
幾周后，她的尸體在歐塞河被發(fā)現(xiàn)，她上衣口袋里裝滿了沉重的石頭。
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