And the algid state would last,

如果你在这期间能够幸存下来
if you survived, normally from eight to twenty-four hours.

那么寒冷期通常会持续八到二十四小时
As a patient, you would lose--

作为病患
progressively your pulse would become fainter,

你的脉搏会日益微弱
or even almost absent.

甚至是几乎停止了
The body would turn cold and would have a livid appearance.

身体会变凉面色乌青
It looked, within a few hours--

在几小时内会看起来
and this was another of the frightening aspects of this disease--

这是这种疾病另一可怕的方面
within a few hours, someone who had been healthy that morning,

在几小时内一个人也许早晨看起来健康
by the afternoon looked cadaverized,

到了下午便面如死灰
like a person who had been wasting away

如同一个被长期疾病
from a long-term wasting illness.

逐渐折磨衰弱的病人