📖2018-07-12 人类简史12

📖Day12 人类简史笔记12

⭕️History's biggest Fraud

开启新时代 herald a new era

烈日当空 under the scorching sun

大量疾病 a plethora of ailments

    eg: He's prone to minor ailments

挺过艰难时光 weather difficult years

成千上万死亡 die by the thousands and millions 

我受的伤很值 My suffering is a worthwhile sacrifice

授予 bestow something on

漫不经心地 inadvertently

费力做 break one's back doing sth

丰收时/歉收时 in times of plenty/in times of need

💡喜欢的句子

Scholars once proclaimed that the agricultural revolution was a great leap forward for humanity. That tale is a fantasy.

Just as the economic success of a company is measured only by the number of dollars in its bank account, not by the happiness of its employees, so the evolutionary success of a species is measured by the number of copies of its DNA.