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》

and "The most terrible of all the ministers of death."

和所有死神中最恶劣的东西
Furthermore, like plague though,

此外就像瘟疫一样
smallpox was an airborne disease--

天花是由空气传染的
unlike plague--but like influenza.

也许并不像瘟疫而更像流行性感冒
And it was an affliction that was universal,

而且它的危害是广泛的
and had no predilection for any subset of the population,

并不偏好某种特定的人群
such as the poor.

例如穷人
It wasn't really in that sense a social disease.

从这个意义上讲它并不是一种社会病
Even royal families were scourged

在十七到十八世纪
by smallpox in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

即使是皇室贵胄也饱受天花的折磨
Famous sufferers and victims included

著名的患病者和受害者有
King Louis XIV

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