Life is a scarce resource.

生命是一种稀有资源。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Look at line 119: Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A Sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs!"

看一下第119行：,妄言之口！他们甚至不知如何掌控,愚钝之人，从未经受过学识的洗礼,文艺只属于虔诚的牧人！

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

When he laughed, was witty, in a merry humor, one could scarce sees his eyes, and by and by, when he was serious and positive, he opened his eyes round.

当他笑时，他是睿智的，带有令人愉快的幽默，都看不见他的眼睛了，不一会儿，他变得严肃和积极了，便圆睁着眼睛。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We can think about this in an evolutionary way, as I've alluded to a lot, but if you think about it from a completely Darwinian point of view, and you think about these food conditions where food would be scarce in ancient times.

我们可以从生物演化的角度来看这个问题,我已经提到过很多了,但是如果你完全从达尔文学说的角度思考,从食品条件想想,在古代,哪里可能出现食物短缺

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In the forty-sixth chapter of Leviathan, a chapter we will read later, Hobbes wrote, "I believe that scarce anything can be more repugnant to government than much of what Aristotle has said in his Politics, " nor more ignorantly than a great part of his Ethics."

在《利维坦》第，46，章，我们稍后就会读到的一章，贺伯斯写到：，“我就不信有任何,更令人反感的政府可以比得上,那个亚里士多德在其《政治学》中所描述，还有一大部份的《伦理学》更是无知至极“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now these parts of the world are shrinking in the number; but let's say you lived in Ethiopia or Somalia, or places where food really is scarce way too much of the time, then having this particular biological drive, having a brain that wants you to seek out these foods would be highly adaptive.

现在这些地区的数量正在减少,但如果你生活在埃塞俄比亚或是索马里,或是当前食品十分短缺的地区,那么拥有这种生物驱动力,拥有不断驱使你去寻找食物的大脑,会让你有极强的适应能力

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选