Then came Thomas Robert Malthus [1766-1834] with the discovery that nature does not provide the means of existence for everybody.

后来，马尔萨斯(Thomas Robert Malthus, 1766 - 1834)发现，自然界并没有给每个人提供生存手段。

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Not only did white men encroach upon the Indians'hunting grounds, but they rapidly destroyed the Indians'principal means of existence—the buffalo.

白人不仅侵占印第安人的猎场，而且快速地毁灭印第安人的主要食物来源—野牛。

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The production of the means of existence is closely related to that of the human beings themselves and their influence upon human existence consistently vary with the passage of time.

物质资料生产与人类自身生产紧密相联，它们对人类生存的作用在时间的推进中不断变化。

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He says the existence of fistulas means the health system has failed somewhere.

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It doesn't have a concrete independent existence. And that means that human beings and only human beings are the potential source of evil in the world. Responsibility for evil lies in the hands of human beings.

它没有具体的形态，这意味着,人类，也只有人类，可能是潜伏着的邪恶的源泉,人类要为邪恶的出现负责。

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And that's when, instead of struggling to find some means of co-existence, we try to silence it or ignore it.

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After all, a child deprived, through some Knowltonian means, of coming into existence, loses everything.

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This means reorganizing these mistakes out of existence.

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