来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病 第12集 第12集》

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  Why syphilis at this stage of the course?
  我挑今天这节课来介绍梅毒
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  I think that it provides background for No Magic Bullet,
  是因为它为《没有灵丹妙药》这本书
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  and it also helps us to look at
  提供了背景介绍 它也有助于我们
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  some of the material that we've already covered,
  回顾一些已学内容
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  and that you'll be writing about in the next few days.
  给你们之后几天要着手写的文章提供参考
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  Well, first let's deal then with the chronology,
  那么 让我们从年代学开始
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  and this helps us to step back in time from the nineteenth century;
  我们可以借此把眼光从十九世纪向前推
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  to go back, indeed, to the plague years.
  回到那个瘟疫年代
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  Syphilis, in fact, was contemporary in its onset with plague,
  梅毒和瘟疫几乎同时代出现流行
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  and like plague,
  与瘟疫相同
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  at the time it was a new disease that first struck europe,
  当时它是初次侵袭欧洲的新型疾病
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  in this case, in the late 1490s.
  初次流行的时间是十五世纪90年代后期