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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  This theory held that perhaps
  这种理论认为
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  the disease was present in Europe for a long time,
  这种疾病在欧洲已经存在很长一段时间了
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  but had been confined to a small corner of the continent,
  但是被限制在大陆的一个角落
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  perhaps--and one can see certain sinister views here--
  这里包含不祥的见解
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  confined perhaps to Jews,
  被犹太人限制了
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  or Moors in Spain, and unnoticed by outsiders.
  或者被摩尔人限制 门外汉们未加注意
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  Then with the expulsion of the Jews in the 1490s,
  随着1490年对犹太人的驱逐
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  the disease was disseminated across Europe.
  疾病也在欧洲广泛传播开来
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  Now, among those who propounded this view,
  如今 在那些提出这样的观点的人中
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  there was clearly a current of racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia.
  有种族歧视倾向 反犹太及惧外主义
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  Syphilis was supposed to have been endemic among the Jews,
  梅毒本来是犹太人的地方病
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  having come perhaps earlier from Africa,
  或许比非洲更早