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》

events described as "Virgin soil epidemics."

这被描述为"处女地流行病"
These were catastrophes that accompanied European expansion

这些大灾难伴随着欧洲人扩张领土的脚步
to the New World, Australia, New Zealand.

进入了新世界澳大利亚和新西兰
And there smallpox, and another childhood disease

在那里天花病以及另一种童年疾病
that accompanied it, measles, had a transformative

麻疹极大地清空了土地
importance in clearing the land and promoting settlement by

帮助那些对疾病有强大抵抗力的
Europeans with their robust immunity.

欧洲人在此定居
The impact of smallpox and

天花病和麻疹的
measles was greater than that of gunpowder.

影响力比枪弹还大
In the New World, you'll be reading about this in

在新世界里你们很快会在
detail in that wonderful book by Elizabeth Fenn,

伊丽莎白·范恩的书《美洲瘟疫》里
Pox Americana, and you might want to be

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