They tended,in general, not to have as much farmland as the places that I have described as not being colonizers, who may not have felt the pressures of land hunger, which was so important in motivating colonization.

这些城市也许,大体上,并没有像未进行殖民的城市,那样多的农田,未进行殖民的城市没有土地匮乏的问题,而这正是殖民的一个重要动机

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And just from this little section of the poem, you can see that the theme of a new kind of education and only that can remedy nature's defects, as Machiavelli calls them. It is this lack of strife, this long lack of strife, that makes people weak.

仅从这首诗的这一小部分中，你能看到一种提倡新型教育的主题,而且只有那样才能弥补本性的缺陷，如马基雅维利所称，正是由于缺少争斗，这种长时期的冲突匮乏，才使得人们变得软弱。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So if you guys have had-- many health professionals say that there's not enough nutrition education out there, that most people don't learn it in the schools, people aren't getting it so much from families because families don't know a lot about nutrition, but the fact is you've had a lot of nutrition education and you've just proven it.

也许大家听说过,很多健康专家声称,现在的营养教育很匮乏,许多人在学校里学不到这方面的知识,在家里也得不到多少这类信息,因为很多家长对营养一知半解,但事实上你们已接受了大量的营养知识,刚才你们已经证明了这点

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Now the fact that people were so reliant on certain foods led to deficiencies of certain nutrients, so people that were dependent on a rice based diet tended to have problems with deficiencies in protein, Vitamin A, and thiamine.

人们过于依赖某些特定的食物,导致了某些营养元素的匮乏,因此,以米饭为主食的人,很可能缺少蛋白质,维生素A和维生素B1

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选