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By now I can usually understand even small texts, but I am having trouble
translating this one sentence. I think it hast to do with wrong parsing.

> 彼が注目を浴びるのを避けたということは、人々が知っておくべきだと私が思うほどには、彼について知らない、ということでもあります。

My attempt:

**The fact the he tries to avoid attention is that, The more I think I come to
the conclusion that people must know it, because they don't actually know
about him.**

> 彼が注目を浴びるのを避けたということは **The fact the he tries to avoid attention is that**
>
> 人々が知っておくべきだと私が思うほどには **The more I think I come to the conclusion that people
> must know it**
>
> 彼について知らない、ということでもあります **because they don't actually know about him.**

This sentence for some reason is very confusing for me, what you think of my
translation?

Thanks!
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grammar translation
I'm having trouble translating this sentence
I would parse it like this:

> ｛「［彼が注目を浴びるのを避けた］ということは、人々が知っておくべきだ」と私が思うほどには、(私は)彼について知らない｝、ということでもあります。

Also, it helps to work your way backwards, so to speak:

> ...ということでもあります。 It also means that ...
>
> ...と私が思うほどには、(私は)彼について知らない I don't know him to the extent that I would think
> ... / I don't know him enough to think ...
>
> ...ということは、人々が知っておくべきだ People should know (the fact) that ...
>
> 彼が注目を浴びるのを避けた He avoided drawing attention

I think what's giving you trouble is that the first は is replacing the object
marker を, topicalizing the object. Also, you'll want to be careful with ほど
because it has several uses including approximation, extent, comparison, and
proportional change. Here, it is being used to show extent.
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I'd parse it this way:

> ［彼が注目を浴びるのを避けた］ということは、［人々が｛（知っておくべきだ）と私が思うほどには、｝彼について知らない、］ということでもあります。

Its basic structure is 「～～ということは、・・・ということでもあります。」"～～ also means ・・・".

「～～ほど(に)(は)・・・ない」 means "not so ・・・ as ～～" "not ・・・ to the extent that ～～".

To break it down...

彼が注目を浴びるのを避けたということは、  
The fact that he avoided getting people's attention

（人々が）知っておくべきだと私が思うほどには  
to the extent that I think people should know

人々が...彼について知らない  
people don't know about him

ということでもあります。  
also means

To put them back together...

> "The fact that he avoided getting people's attention also means that people
> don't know about him to the extent that I think they should."
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