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》

Ill-constructed houses with decomposing refuse,

充斥着腐烂垃圾的易让人得病的住宅
clothes upon their doors and windows,

衣物直接晾晒在门窗上
open drains, bring the oozings of pigsties

开放式阴沟使得墙角下渗漏出了
and filth to stagnate at the foot of the walls.

猪圈和污物并造成堵塞
Such are a few of the sources of disease,

这些只是少量的疾病源头
which even the breezes from the hills cannot dissipate."

就连山坡上吹来的风都无法使其消散
Everywhere the reports discovered disease,

报告中提到的每个地方都发现了疾病
and they correlated the disease with such findings

并且他们将疾病与
as poisonous vapor, morbific effluvia,

有毒的蒸汽致病的臭气
filth, obnoxious effluvia, poisonous exhalations,

污物令人作呕的臭气有毒的发散物
miasma and malaria.

瘴气以及疟疾联系在一起
The moral of the texts of those conditions also preoccupied

字里行间里这些情况的寓意