nasty, brutish, and short

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of a hypothetical state of human life, without a government or society, and marked by constant fear, violence, and insecurity. derogatory,idiomatic
    — America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

词源

Mentioned in 1651 in Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes: No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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