Fat has a biological purpose: for most of history it was a sign of vitality and rich men were proud of their rotund wives - look at the ideal of human beauty in a Rubens painting.

脂肪是能派上生物用途的。在历史上的大部分时期，肥胖是生命力的象征，富人们以自己妻子的丰腴为美。不信就看看画家鲁本斯（Rubens）笔下的人体美吧。

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First of all, to study history is to look at a road map of human behavior that has led us to where we are today in the world.

首先，研究历史即是去审视一帧人类行为的“指路图”，让我们明白我们何以会处于目前的状态。

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It's a look at the devices that have most impacted human civilization and helped shape the course of history.

FORBES: Methodology

If you look at the history of this planet, you will see cycles of creation and destruction that would offend our morality as human beings.

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