来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病 第10集 第10集》

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  It clearly, by the early nineteenth century,
  在十九世纪早期
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  had an endemic home on the Indian subcontinent,
  霍乱显然已在印度次大陆肆虐
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  and particularly the area here in the delta of the Ganges
  尤其是在恒河三角洲
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  and Brahmaputra Rivers. That's that area.
  和雅鲁藏布江区域 就是这里
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  There are accounts of diseases in various writings
  在许多文学作品里都出现了这种疾病的描述
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  that are suggestive of cholera well before the nineteenth century.
  这或许暗示了霍乱存在于十九世纪之前
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  But that particular debate is exotic for our purposes,
  但是这个争论不是我们课程的范畴
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  and what we want to know is that by the early nineteenth century
  我们想要了解的是在十九世纪早期
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  it was endemic in the Indian subcontinent.
  它就已是印度次大陆的地方病
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  But it was unknown elsewhere in the world,
  但是还未被世界其他地方发现
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  until it burst into a major epidemic in 1817
  直到1817年出现了爆发
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  that then escaped India and began
  病毒逃离了印度