so the war ends on the 11th of November, 1918.

1918年11月11日一战结束
And, as you know, there were many people-- not many,

但是停战之后还是有许多人
but there were lots of people killed afterwards because

应该说是一大批人死去
they didn't know that the Armistice had come along and that the biggest

因为他们不知道战争已结束与此同时
pandemic ever in human history, at least since the Black Death in

自14世纪的黑死病以来人类历史上
the fourteenth century, the Spanish flu, as it was called;

最大规模的流行病西班牙流感爆发了
it probably started in India but had already begun to sweep

西班牙流感大概起源于印度
through the world.

随即席卷全球
So, things were not getting better and better but they were

事情不是向好的方向发展
getting worse and worse.

而是越来越糟
Just a few obvious statistics-- you can see these all over but it is

只是一些统计数据你们可以听听
staggering;

不过这简直难以想象