All of the things that we'll be saying about plague

所有我们将会说到的瘟疫的相关方面
magnified the responses of the societies that were afflicted.

都放大了深受其害的不同社会的回应
Plague was associated with mass hysteria;

瘟疫与集体歇斯底里
with terror; with violence;

恐怖暴力
with religious revivals,

宗教复兴联系到了一起
as people sought to assuage the divine wrath.

因为人们寻求减轻神的愤怒的方法
It was associated with scapegoating and witch-hunts,

它和代人受过和猎女巫有关
for the guilty people in society responsible for the disaster.

因为社会中有罪的人对灾难难辞其咎
Perhaps those were the sinful,

可能那些人是有罪的
for those who saw the disease as divine retribution.

因为那些人将疾病看作是神的惩罚
Or it could be a search for the homicidal agents

或者它可能是对一些人类阴谋的
of some human conspiracy,

行凶者们的搜寻