I carried on reading South, comparing the trials and tribulations of Shackleton, Wild and crew on their epic open-boat voyage from Elephant Island to South Georgia with my own minor discomfort.

我继续阅读《南方》，把自己不足道的不舒服感觉与谢克雷顿、王尔德和伙伴们在史诗般的从大象岛到南乔治亚岛航行时，所经受的考验和痛苦做一番比较。

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One of the main places in Asia where the elephant lives is the island of Ceylon.

在亚洲，大象生活的主要地方之一是锡兰岛。

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On a glacier-filled island with fjords and elephant seals, Russia has built Antarctica's first Orthodox church on a hill overlooking its research base.

在一座满是冰川、有峡湾和海象的岛屿上，俄罗斯在一座可以俯瞰其研究基地的小山上建造了南极洲的第一座东正教教堂。

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Three months later, Shackleton regained the makeshift camp at Elephant Island, after two failed attempts.

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With no hope of being rescued from Elephant Island, Shackleton resolved to undertake the vastly improbable and daring voyage for which he would become justly famous.

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When eventually the floes began to break up in April 1916, Shackleton loaded his men into three small lifeboats and struck out for Elephant Island, an uninhabited speck of land some 100 miles distant.

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