the basest of women / the wisest of people 用不同的詞語來表達不同程度的痛苦：
grief（悲傷）；pain（痛楚）；agony（極大痛苦——肉體及心靈的）；anguish（心靈的痛苦、煎熬）
描述這些痛苦，用了so acute and unbearable that...
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1 Our love is...fed by that tenderness / I ...nourished you with my blood...
句式 is fed by... 解作“由……供給（滋養、資源）”；is nourished with 解作“由……培育、滋養”，都是被動式。可以說 sth is fed by love, fed by greed, fed by hatred；sth is nourished with love, with care 等：
Children nourished with love usually grow up to be positive and optimistic. 以愛心培育的兒童長大後通常是積極的、樂觀的。
Fed by greed, he began to receive bribes. 受貪念驅使，他開始收取賄款。
注意 fed up (with sb / sth) 則解作“（對某人 / 事物）受夠了，不耐煩了”：
I am fed up with exam drills. 我對考試練習受夠了。
The people are fed up with lying politicians. 人們對說謊的政客煩透了。
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2 You are suspected of a crime...
句式 suspect sb of sth 解作“懷疑某人做了某事”：
The police suspected him of shoplifting. 警方懷疑他盜竊店鋪。
句式 suspect sth 則解作“懷疑某事物”：
I suspect his honesty. 我懷疑他的誠信。
注意 suspect that-clause 有正負兩麵用法，可解作“懷疑是……”，也可解作“感到是……”：
She suspects (that) he is a hacker. 她懷疑他是個計算機“黑客”。
I suspect (that) you are right. 我覺得你是對的。
suspect 可作名詞，重音第一音節，解“嫌疑人物”：
The police found their suspect for the murder. 警方找到了謀殺案的疑犯。
3 To plunge myself into a worse fate?
句式 plunge into / to 解作“急墜、直落某地方 / 情況”。注意用 into 一般偏重“進入某地方”或“急速陷入某境界”的意味，而 to 則偏重“境況急轉”的意味，二者不能調換使用：
The car plunged into a ravine. 汽車直墜深穀裏。
The man plunged to his death by jumping from the top of the building. 那男子由屋頂跳下，墜樓身亡。
The city was plunged into total darkness owing to a power failure.
由於電力故障，全城陷入漆黑一片。
The stock market plunged to an all-time low in the wake of the economic crisis. 股市隨著經濟危機急跌至曆年新低點。