来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病 第7集 第7集》

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  it was if a city of that size disappeared
  这就相当于每年一座同等大小的城市
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  from this single disease every year.
  由于这一疾病消失了
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  The nineteenth century English poet and historian,
  十九世纪的英国诗人及历史学家
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  Thomas Babington Macaulay,
  托马斯·巴比顿·麦考莱
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  wrote this about smallpox.
  关于天花曾写道
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  "The havoc of plague had been far more rapid.
  瘟疫的浩劫来势汹汹
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  But the plague has visited our shores
  但在我们一生中
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  only once or twice in living memory.
  瘟疫只会来临一两次
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  But smallpox was always there,
  然而 天花却永远在那儿
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  filling the churchyards with corpses,
  伴随着墓地横尸万里
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  tormenting with constant fear all whom it had not yet stricken,
  折磨着未感染者们惊惶恐惧
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  and leaving on those, whose lives it spared,
  使那些幸免于难的人们