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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  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
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  the hideous traces of its power,
  铭记其恐怖的破坏力
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  turning the babe into a changeling, at which the mother shuddered,
  将婴儿变得面貌丑陋 使其母亲战栗
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  and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden
  将订婚的少女的眼眸与脸颊
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  objects of horror to her lover."
  变为令她的爱人恐惧的样子
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  Two of the most famous descriptions of smallpox in this century
  在那个时期 天花被形容为
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  were those that described it as "The speckled monster",
  带斑点的怪物
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  and "The most terrible of all the ministers of death."
  和 所有死神中最恶劣的东西
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  Furthermore, like plague though,
  此外 就像瘟疫一样