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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  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
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  a relatively recent illustration of that idea
  一个较为近期的对于这个想法的描述是
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  was the idea of the healing power of the royal touch.
  就是帝王按抚疗法
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  Charles II of England, for example,
  比如英国国王查理二世
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  administered this treatment in the seventeenth century
  在十七世纪给大约十万人
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  to about 100,000 people.
  实施了这个疗法