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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  And this attitude was so pervasive
  这种观点很广泛
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  that it wasn't uncommon even
  大多数父母甚至不愿意
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  for parents to expose healthy children intentionally to mild cases,
  让健康的孩子接触到极其普通的小病
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  in the hope that they could protect them
  借以希望这样
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  from something much more catastrophic.
  能保护他们免遭更大的灾祸
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  We could look at this attitude by--or appreciate it--
  我们可以从欧洲文学的角度看待
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  by thinking about European literature,
  或者说理解这种观点
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  particularly British literature, let's say in the eighteenth century.
  尤以英国文学的角度 假定我们在十八世纪
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  Let's think, for example,
  举个例子
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  of Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones.
  在亨利·菲尔丁的小说《汤姆琼斯》里
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  In that, when it was useful to have a change in plot,
  在这里 当情节需要转换时
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  all the author had to do
  作者需要做的只是