来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病 第11集 第11集》

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  this new and most feared disease of the nineteenth century.
  霍乱是十九世纪时新的最令人恐惧的疾病
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  It's not by chance, then, that the sanitary movement
  卫生运动始于十九世纪三四十年代的英国
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  begins in the 1830s and '40s in Britain,
  更确切地说 发生于第一次和第二次
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  after, that is to say, the first pandemic
  亚细亚霍乱流行爆发之后
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  and the second of Asiatic cholera.
  这并不是偶然的
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  And it lasts intermittently down through the First World War.
  并且它在一战期间也间歇性爆发
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  And this really was a vast movement.
  这确实是一场声势浩大的运动
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  It was nothing less than the retrofitting
  它完全就是一场都市中心大改造
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  of the urban centers of the nation, with the specific goal
  其具体的目标是
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  of removing filth, because filth was held
  清除城市污物 因为人们认为
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  to be the cause of disease.
  这些污物就是疾病的来源
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  So, we're talking about one of the great public works projects
  我们现在讨论的是现代历史上的