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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  and what you can see is the attempt
  你们可以看到的是
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  to control this disease with the plague measures.
  人们用防范瘟疫的措施来控制霍乱
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  You can see the troops, sanitary cordons and all the rest,
  有军队 防疫封锁线和其他一些措施
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  trying to keep out "the monster," as it was called.
  试图将"魔鬼"赶出去
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  But those in fact turned out, for reasons we'll be coming to,
  但我们接下来会讲到
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  to be entirely ineffective in dealing with cholera, unlike the plague.
  这些措施对霍乱完全无效
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  Or we can see--and here the analogy in people's minds
  从这张图片我们可以看出人们认为
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  that this might be the return of the plague is clear,
  霍乱是瘟疫的回归
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  because here we can see the Grim Reaper,
  因为我们又看到了死神
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  with his scythe, mowing down the whole population.
  拿着大镰刀试图摧毁人类
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  Or here we can see,
  再看看这张图片
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  once again in the nineteenth century, a revival here.
  十九世纪的复兴