This shocking image, this impossible-to-imagine image of a brooding impregnation, establishes the foundation for two of this poem's most daring elements.

这个令人震惊，难以想象的,孵伏怀孕的景象为这首诗的两个,最为大胆的元素奠定了基础。

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That's one consequence of Milton's image of a brooding impregnation.

这是从弥尔顿孵伏怀孕的意象的推论之一。

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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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Virgil had written a poem in the Sixth Eclogue that had touched Milton, and it had touched Milton, I think, because it begins with Virgil's own brooding meditation on the course of his poetic career.

维吉尔在里的一首诗触动了弥尔顿，之所以这首诗能够触动他，是因为那首诗是以维吉尔本身关于诗歌职业的,忧伤的沉思，开篇的。

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He's asking us to imagine God, or perhaps this is God's creative spirit, as some sort of feminine being laying the universal egg and brooding over it until it bursts forth with new life. This is a risk.

他想让我们把上帝，或者说上帝的创造精神，想象成一个产下宇宙之卵并孵伏其上,直到新生命破壳而出的女性形象，这很冒险。

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