Here is a reading of his description of his first sight of the bats and the big cave: "I thought it was a volcano, but then,I'd never seen a volcano nor never before had I seen bats swarm, for that matter.

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I should mention that the very first reading that you're going to be doing is a couple of pages from Jay Rosenberg, a contemporary philosopher.

我想说你们首先,要阅读的是,杰·罗森伯格所写的文章,一个当代哲学家

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Its meaning will not be evident to you on a first reading.

其中意涵在你首度阅读时,并不明显。

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and the first you are going to be reading will be a chapter in a book I wrote 5 or 6 years ago I guess it's almost 6 years now since 1998 to came up.

首先你们要读的,是我5年或6年前写的一章,我想应该是至今6年了,从1998年算的话。

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As you may well have gleaned from your reading, the first books of the poem are particularly absorbed with the idea of forgetting, because more than any other part of Paradise Lost they display so ostentatiously the remarkable scope of Milton's own memory.

可能你们从阅读中也已经得知，这部诗的第一册,尤其表现了“遗忘“这一理念，因为相对于《失乐园》的其他部分,它们如此夸耀地展示了,弥尔顿自身记忆范围的宽广。

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In fact, in part, because of this, we are only reading approximately half the book, the first five books, to be more specific.

事实上，也部份归因于此，我们大约只能读,其一半的篇幅，更确切的说是前五部。

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