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This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.
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这后半句话的结构实际很好理解，就是定语从句，9 [3 C2 {5 t+ Y) G
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首先such as可以去掉而不改变句意，写作 ... it was an extradinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness I have never found in any other person...3 D/ L/ m. i7 x3 P
在此基础上可以加个which，... a romantic readiness which I have never found in any other person...0 M. G5 l1 e( c( X
但现在作者想加上一个such，这在语义上起到提升语气的作用，也可以呼应前半句的内容，相当于汉语思维中的 “如此的什么什么”，等同于在说 I have never found such a romantic readiness in any other person.9 R% m. w5 p6 K( `- i% b! o, p
转述成定语从句的时候就成了 ... a romantic readiness SUCH WHICH I have never found* - G; c/ x ^# \9 ?# f
但这里的which前面只能是介词，比如 a house IN which I live, 不能是such which。
: m) U! l3 @; X而这个写作思维仍然是正确的，但需要把which换作as，于是就有了原文的写法。
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最后半句中的which也是定语从句，which是find的宾语，which的先行词是readiness。
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至于你提出的改法，前半句是正确的，但作者是想把such放在readiness上，而不是gift上。
$ V6 ` c; J/ q后半句在语法上成立，却不符合英语的表达习惯，像这种两个并列的定语从句，为了表述清晰，通常会在第二个分句加上引导词作为“路标”，告诉读者这是接在前面哪里的，
$ H8 x( C9 r3 n9 m- a4 u两个并列定语从句，往往前面的引导词可以省略，但后面的不能省，比如：
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最后，it作为形式主语放在句首的写法更符合英语思维。
1 Z4 m% d7 K; u$ Z' y比如 It is not likely that the United States could re-emerge from the mess of this covid-19 pandemic with the nation's psyche undistrubed.
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