来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病 第4集 第4集》

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  can cling to a dress, a sweater, a shirt.
  能依附于裙子毛衣衬衫上
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  Well, for this reason,
  因而 为了达到这个目的
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  people also tried to protect themselves
  人们也试图用特殊的瘟疫防护服
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  with special plague costumes.
  来保护自己
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  You can see you'd be very handsome dressed like that.
  你会觉得穿成那样很美观
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  And the idea was that the costume would be waxed,
  有人认为衣服要上蜡
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  because that would prevent anything from adhering to it.
  因为这样可以防止任何东西粘附于其上
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  In this case they weren't thinking about fleas,
  在这种情况下他们没考虑到跳蚤
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  they were thinking about the atoms of the corrupted,
  考虑的而是污染的空气
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  defiled atmosphere.
  的原子
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  And you'll note that there's a prominent feature;
  你会注意到有一个显著的特征
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  is the beak here.
  即这里的鸟嘴