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 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

路易十四
and Louis XV of France;

法国国王路易十五
William II of Orange;

荷兰执政威廉二世
Peter II of Russia;

俄国彼得二世
the Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph I.

以及神圣罗马帝国皇帝约瑟夫一世