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》

It was feared for a number of reasons:

有如下几个原因
its extremely sudden appearance;

霍乱的出现很突然
its exotic and unfamiliar character;

它有令人陌生的特征
the agonizing and gruesome nature of its symptoms;

和极度痛苦的症状
its high case fatality rate;

高死亡率
and its predilection for adults in the prime of life,

同时霍乱易于感染青壮年
rather than children.

而非儿童
It's revealing that a great deal of the discussion surrounding

早期有关霍乱的讨论
the early experiences with cholera

围绕着霍乱是否为
revolved around the question of whether this was, in fact,

瘟疫的某种变异
the return of the plague.

这是很有启发性的
Some of the names that were given to cholera

霍乱的一些别称