来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病第9集第9集》

and that I would also be able to see in stone

我还能去看看瘟疫流行的受害者们的
the victims of a major epidemic. In other words,

墓地也就是说
the first idea I had was

我最先想到的是
that you can't in order to prove

要证明
that there was an epidemic,

传染病大流行的存在
you would have to have a sudden bulge in mortality

就得在1911年夏天找到
in the summer months of 1911.

死亡率的突增
And I thought I could demonstrate

我当时认为我可以
that by visiting the Naples Cemetery,

通过参观那不勒斯墓地找到证据
and if there wasn't a sudden excess of death

如果那年夏天没有死亡率突增的话
in the summer, then I would know that I was actually

我也可以说服自己
on the wrong trail entirely and I should abandon my project.

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