Poetry feeds my soul. Poetry is comforting and soothing, and it's awe-inspiring as a glimpse of rainbow, which should come as no surprise since poems and rainbows have something in common.

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I can't help but feel that within the context of the actual story of the Fall, the Fall of Adam and Eve, that the idea of divine providence isn't actually all that comforting.

我觉得在这个故事的实际框架中,关于堕落，亚当夏娃的堕落的来龙去脉中的，上帝的天命的思想并不那么让人舒坦。

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So it's soothing. It's comforting. It's English. Then we have the...

所以，它可以镇定人心，它可以给人慰藉。它是英国的。那么我们有……

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It's no more comforting or satisfying than if you said, You know this knucklebone?

这就和告诉我，你死后我们会做手术，把你的指关节骨？

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Why does your body experience one food as highly pleasant, highly reinforcing, highly comforting, highly soothing even, and experience those other foods as bitter and unpleasant?

为何身体能从一种食物中获得高度愉悦感,感到极度满足,舒适,甚至感到安抚,但却觉得其他食物难以下咽呢

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and there's something very comforting about that.

其中有很让人宽慰的感觉。

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