来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病 第2集 第2集》

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  I would burn them all."
  我会把他们全都烧死"
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  alternatively--that was a good therapeutic idea-
  最为选择 这是一个不错的治疗方案
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  alternatively a person could be deemed to be inhabited or possessed
  另一种就是 人们会被认为
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  by an evil spirit,
  被恶灵附体
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  and in that case the cure was to cast out the devil through exorcism.
  这种情况下 治疗措施就是驱魔
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  and this cosmology survives in our own language
  这种论调也出现在我们自己的语言中
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  when we talk today about someone acting "Like someone possessed,"
  比如当我们说某人"着魔了"
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  Or "Out of his mind."
  或者"魂不附体"
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  and healers pursuing these sorts of ideas would invoke magic,
  相信这个论调的治疗师会召唤法力
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  or have incantations.
  或者念诵咒语
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  They'd prescribe special concoctions, chants, sacred rites and spells.
  并开出特殊的配方 辅以仪式和咒语
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  And in European history,
  在欧洲历史上