They were seen as reservoirs of diseases that threatened Europe;

他们被看做威胁欧洲的疾病的仓库
Europe protected by the ramparts of civilization and medical science.

欧洲一直被文明和医学科学的城墙所保护
So, tropical medicine embodied, down to a later period--

后期热带医学的具体表达
certainly in this period down to the First World War--

在第一次世界大战期间
a Eurocentric worldview.

一个欧洲中心主义的世界观
It was initially not responsive to specific locations,

它当初是没有特定位置的反应
as the tropics were artificially constructed

作为热带地区一些单一的地区
as some single homogeneous place.

被人为地兴建
The natives of the tropics were also conceptualized

热带地区的土著也将一些莫名其妙的危险
as somehow dangerous, harboring a vast array of lethal

给概念化了
and highly contagious diseases.

窝藏了繁多致命的和高传染性的疾病
Another implication was that tropical medicine was concerned,

另一个含义是热带医学广受关注