来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1871年后的法国 第5集 第5集》

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  and remember babies died all the time, after childbirth.
  要知道婴儿在分娩后非常容易死掉
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  If you made it to one,year one,
  如果能活到一岁
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  you had a good chance of living to the ripe old age of 40--
  那么你将有很大可能活到40岁高龄
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  that if you didn't baptize the baby and the baby died,
  但如果未接受洗礼 婴儿就死掉了
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  then the baby was going to
  那这个孩子将会
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  go to limbo or something and sort of float around;
  在地狱的边缘游荡
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  there were all these popular beliefs about limbo.
  当时的人普遍相信地狱边缘这一概念
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  And so what he did is he
  因此他所做的就是
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  went out and he looked at all these baptisms,
  到处观察这些洗礼
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  certificates of baptism,thousands of them,
  看上千份的领洗证明书
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  to see how long it was that--how long did people,
  然后观察人们要多久
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  after the birth,did they baptize their children.
  才会给自己出生后的孩子施洗礼