Current thinking is that women distribute the fat below the waist because it's a fat storage depot for pregnancy and lactation.

流行观点认为女性,把更多脂肪储存在腰以下,是为怀孕和哺乳提供脂肪储存

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It's with this image of a brooding impregnation that Milton announces the presence in his poem of his most potent, what I think is the most interesting, theological innovation that he comes up with here.

正是通过这个孵伏怀孕的形象,弥尔顿在这里宣告了他在这首诗中,最具潜力，最有趣的神学新观点。

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And then,lo and behold it turns out that his widow, to whom he confessed various infidelities before expiring, was pregnant; indeed,he was the father.

之后,他的遗孀怀孕了,他在断气前向她承认曾经有过不忠,但他确实是孩子的父亲

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So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

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It's the way to store energy in a place that protects it, packs it away, and keeps it for pregnancy and for nursing the baby, so it's very important from a reproductive point of view.

这样把能量储存在一个地方,保护起来,为怀孕和养育孩子备用,从生殖观点来看这是很重要的

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I think it's safe to say that we're intended to be shocked, ; maybe even repulsed, by this remarkable description of the deity; and so I'm hoping you feel something of a shock of these lines, "and mad'st it pregnant." Milton is taking a huge aesthetic risk here.

通过这不同寻常的对神的刻画，弥尔顿，应该是想要让我们震惊，甚至厌恶的;,因此我希望你们因这几句感到些许震撼，“使它怀孕“，弥尔顿在这里为了美感不惜冒了很大的险。

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