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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  before this time a disease like syphilis anywhere in Europe.
  这时像梅毒这样的疾病在欧洲广泛传播
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  And more recently,
  在这之前
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  paleopathologists haven't unearthed evidence of syphilis
  古病理学家们还没有从欧洲人的墓地中
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  in European cemeteries.
  发掘出梅毒的证据
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  It clearly seems to be a disease that was a new--
  它显然是一种新的疾病
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  or let us use an anachronistic term--an emerging disease in the 1490s.
  或用了错误的区间 疾病于1490年成形
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  And because of Eurocentrism, and perhaps xenophobia,
  由于欧洲中心主义 也许是惧外者
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  there was a preference to blame the other.
  优先责备他人
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  A second idea that was very popular was that syphilis,
  第二个观点十分流行
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  instead of being of American or New World origins,
  认为梅毒并非起源于美国或新大陆
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  was of Spanish or African origin.
  而是来自西班牙和非洲的
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  This theory held that perhaps
  这种理论认为