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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  having come perhaps earlier from Africa,
  或许比非洲更早
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  and was prevalent in those populations
  在那些人口中普遍流行
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  because their sex in some way was unnatural and out of control.
  因为他们的性生活十分反常 毫无节制
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  So, syphilis was confined in Europe to Spain,
  那么 梅毒被局限在欧洲到西班牙
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  this theory argues, until the expulsion of the Jews in 1492,
  理论上1492年犹太人被驱逐之前
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  when they unleashed their contagion on the rest of Europe.
  他们解开了传染病在欧洲余下地区的束缚
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  In any case, what's really clear is that
  在任何情况下 都明白无误地显示
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  absolutely no one wanted to acknowledge syphilis as his or her own.
  没有人愿意承认梅毒是他们本土的疾病
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  For Italians, syphilis was somebody else's,
  对意大利人来说 梅毒是别人的
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  it was the French disease.
  是法国的疾病
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  For the French, it was the Neapolitan disease.
  对法国来说是那不勒斯人的疾病
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  For Russians, it was the Polish disease.
  对俄国人来说则是波兰人的疾病