in other words, his answer to thomas hobbes’s famously gloomy statement that man’s existence tends to be 「nasty, brutish and short」 is, in effect, that it is unfair to brutes.
托马斯霍布斯(thomashobbes)对人类的存在有个着名的阴郁的论断:它是污秽、野蛮又短暂的。
a brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
畜类人不晓得,愚顽人也不明白。
every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
各人都成了畜类,毫无知识。各银匠都因他雕刻的偶像羞愧。
understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
你们民间的畜类人当思想。你们愚顽人,到几时才有智慧呢。
surely i am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
这人对以铁和乌甲说,我比众人更蠢笨,也没有人的聪明。
suddenly, certain brutish behaviors that used to be overlooked were exiled as abnormal.
突然之间,那些过去常常被忽视的野蛮的行为都被视为不正常。
indeed, some point out that britain has a long history of brusque and occasional brutish behavior.
的确,有些人指出英国有长久的粗鲁和偶尔粗鲁的行为。
despite their rather striking burnt-orangeshells and their increasing popularity as pets, madagascar giant hissingcockroaches are a vulgar, brutish kind.
凭借摄人眼球的深橙色壳,马达加斯加巨型「嘶嘶」蟑螂在宠物中的名气越来越大,越来越受到人们的欢迎,但它们却是一群粗鲁而野蛮的家伙。
slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them: they love their servitude, as the comrades of ulysses loved their brutish condition.
奴隶们在枷锁之下毫无所求,甚至放弃了摆脱枷锁的想法:他们习惯被奴役,就像尤利塞斯的同伴们也习惯了畜生的状态一样。
besides, strength to her was a gross and brutish thing. her ideal of masculine beauty had always been slender gracefulness.
何况在她心里育力原是粗鲁野蛮的东西,而她理想的男性美一向是修长而潇洒。
koreans and chinese, on the other hand, are depicted as swarthy, brutish and slit-eyed.
而韩国人和中国人的形象则是黑皮肤,小眼睛而且粗野不堪。
and i will pour out mine indignation upon thee, i will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
我必将我的恼恨倒在你身上,将我烈怒的火喷在你身上。又将你交在善于杀灭的畜类人手中。
his brutish family, usually happy to enjoy the fruits of his thievery—marmalade and a birthday cake filched from someone's shopping bag—turf him out.
他可恶的家人常常把他赶出去让他偷盗商店客人包里的果酱和生日蛋糕之类的东西,并且这家人非常乐意去享受他偷盗来的东西。
so the life of man is the life of nature, the life of solitary,poor, nasty, brutish and short.
人类的生命便是自然的写照,生命是如此孤独,贫穷,令人作呕,既残忍又短暂。
a welcome step is the creation of a police force separate from the brutish bush fighters in the army.
在军队残忍且善于在灌木作战的战士之外,政府开始培养新的警力。这是可喜的一步。