来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病 第15集 第15集》

• 
  
  But the issue was simply--in the era, should we say,
  但问题很简单 在那个时代
• 
  
  of diseases of the tropics--
  我们是否能说那属于热带的疾病
• 
  
  was simply one of degree, rather than kind.
  只是某种程度 而不是一个新种类
• 
  
  The diseases of the tropics were simply intense variants
  热带疾病只是由我们熟悉的疾病
• 
  
  of familiar disease processes.
  衍生的特殊变种
• 
  
  And there was an educational corollary to that,
  由此产生了极富教育意义的结果
• 
  
  which was that physicians who had studied general medicine,
  那些在欧洲的医学院校
• 
  
  in European medical schools,
  研究过全科医学的医生
• 
  
  were fully equipped to treat the entire spectrum
  已经全副武装 能够从容应对
• 
  
  of human diseases wherever they occurred.
  遇到的一切人类疾病
• 
  
  Diseases of the tropics weren't a special category.
  热带疾病并不属于特殊范畴
• 
  
  They were simply heightened versions of familiar maladies.
  它们只是我们所熟悉的一些疾病的增强版