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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  was to introduce the idea of smallpox,
  介绍一下天花这个概念
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  because no one would question that that was appropriate,
  因为没人会质疑这样写是否恰当
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  or consider that this was a clumsy or artificial artifice.
  或者认为这么写是一种笨拙或虚假的诡计
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  Everyone expected smallpox.
  人人都期待天花的出现
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  And in Fielding's novel, Joseph Andrews,
  在菲尔丁的小说《约瑟夫·安德鲁斯》中
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  we find that there's a heroine who is pockmarked.
  我们发现有一位女主角脸上有痘疮
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  Or consider Thackeray's The Adventures of Henry Esmond,
  或者想一想萨克雷所作的
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  set in the eighteenth century,
  以十八世纪为背景的《亨利·艾斯蒙》
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  where smallpox drives the plot.
  书中天花驾驭着剧情的发展
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  Smallpox, quite simply, was just there,
  天花 其实很简单 它存在着
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  and it came to seem, for many people,
  所以对于很多人来说
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  a terrible but everyday part of the human condition.
  它是人类社会中可怕但又很平常的一部分