I remember my first exposure way back in the 60s was a photo of the Biafra famine you remember in the civil war in Nigeria.

我记得我第一次感受到贫困，是在60年代,那是一张关于尼日利亚饥荒的照片,你应该记得，是尼日利亚内战期间。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He rises to a position of great power when he correctly interprets some dreams regarding an impending famine, and with Joseph as the governor of the country, in control of the grain supply, Egypt successfully weathers seven years of famine.

他荣升到掌握大权的地位,当他准确地解读了预示饥荒的梦，约瑟夫做国家的管理者，并且控制谷物供给时，埃及成功地避免了七年的饥荒。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I alluded to this a little bit in the first class about how humans have evolved to seek out energy because famine was the largest threat is one example of this.

第一节课的时候我提到了,人类是如何演化以便寻找能量,因为饥荒是最大的威胁,这是其中一例

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The ones who would seek out calories, the ones who could store and not waste energy, those with an efficient metabolism-- that is those people who took in calories and banked them into their body fat and stored against subsequent famine-- are the ones who would do the best under these circumstances.

那些寻找能量的人,那些储存而不浪费能量的人,那些有着高效代谢系统的人,那些人可以将摄入的热量储存为机体脂肪,以用于对抗即将到来的饥荒,在早先的情况下他们是最适应环境的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选