But I can't go back to what it was like in the early days, just like you can't go back to what it was like to be four or three.

但再早之前的事情就记不得了，就像你想不起你三四岁时候的事情一样。

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I guess this is what Hobbes meant by "Nasty, short, and brutish," Or whatever the fourth was. I don't remember, but what life was in the Thirty years' War, that was the way it was.

我猜这就是霍布斯所谓的,"污秽不堪,朝不保夕,野蛮不化",第四个我记不得了,三十年战争时期的生活就是如此

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