He wrote this about his experience: I know that during that long and racking march of thirty-six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of South Georgia it seemed to me often that we were four,not three. The American poet T.S.Eliot was influenced by Shackletons description.

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You'll remember the description of the world from Genesis 1 as an air bubble essentially that's formed by separating waters above and waters below.

大家都记得《创世纪》1中，把世界的描述1,一个大气泡,上面下面都被水覆盖。

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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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