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The story of our bulging waistlines
我们腰围的暴涨
actually has its roots in another battle -
实际源于另一场战争
ironically, one driven by a lack of food.
讽刺的是 这场战争是因食物缺乏引起的
Hunger is always with us.
饥饿始终伴随着我们
From the dawn of time, poverty has been the destiny of man.
从古至今 贫困一直是人类的命运
Man everywhere scratched an uneasy living from an unyielding soil.
人们耕耘着贫瘠的土地挣扎求生
Disease and death, famine and plague
疾病与死亡 饥荒和瘟疫
were the natural order of things.
都是自然规律使然
Through the course of the 20th century,
纵观二十世纪的百年历程
a rapidly expanding population
人口的快速激增
meant there were an ever-increasing number of mouths to feed.
意味着越来越多的人嗷嗷待哺
Today it's hard to imagine, but in Europe people
今天这很难想象 但直到二战
were still suffering from diseases of malnutrition
欧洲仍然有人饱受营养不良导致的疾病
like scurvy and rickets right up to the Second World War.
例如坏血病及软骨病
Well, the war is over,
虽然战争结束了
but peace hasn't brought back the plenty.
但和平没有带来物质上的充裕
Food is still Europe's top-priority problem.
食物短缺仍是欧洲现今的当务之急

重点解释

ironically, one driven by a lack of food.讽刺的是，这场战争是因食物缺乏引起的

lack of:缺乏

The flowers are wilting for lack of water.

这些花因缺水而渐渐枯萎。

Her decision seems to show a lack of political judgment.

她的决定似乎显示出缺乏政治判断力。

Disease and death, famine and plague were the natural order of things.疾病与死亡，饥荒和瘟疫都是自然规律使然

natural order of things:自然的安排

Extinction is the natural order of things.

事物的灭亡是必然的。

but peace hasn't brought back the plenty.但和平没有带来物质上的充裕

bring back:带回来，使恢复

The defeated classes wanted to bring back their lost paradise.

失败的阶级想要恢复它们失去的天堂。

Europe people were still suffering from diseases of malnutrition欧洲仍然有人饱受营养不良导致的疾病

suffer from:遭受； 因 ... 而蒙受损害

Alcoholics often suffer from periods of oblivion.

饮酒过度的人常常失去记忆。

I often suffer from unaccountable headaches.

我常莫名其妙地头疼。