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。

youdao

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。

youdao

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。

youdao

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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