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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Somalia, the land of the perpetual war of all against all, is our beau ideal, so to speak, of the failed state, and for the fourth year running it is No. 1 on the Failed States Index.

例如索马里，这个到处都是人与人的永久战场，可以说是失败国家的完美典范，已经连续四年成为《失败国家目录》的第一名。

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The story of the 2009 war on piracy was best summarised by another pirate, who lived and died in the fourth century BC.

另一个海盗已经绝妙地概括了2009年对海盗宣战这一事件，他生活并死于公元前4世纪。

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The war in Iraq was fourth on the list.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

The fourth is war, and we got peace movements in American history and anti-war fervor and ferment, of all kinds, for a very long time.

第四点是战争,我们美国历史上的和平运动,酝酿的反战情绪,诸此种种,由来已久了

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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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But the founders, and more specifically the framers of the Constitution, included men who had fought a war for independence -- the very war celebrated on the "Glorious Fourth" -- against a country in which church and state were essentially one.

CNN: Why U.S. is not a Christian nation

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