1. Take bubonic plague for example. The disease is most commonly transmitted to humans through flea bites, and the fleas live on rodents.
以黑死病为例。这种疾病最常通过跳蚤叮咬传染给人类,跳蚤生存在啮齿类动物上。

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2. They also ruled out bubonic plague or tuberculosis.
他们还排除了图坦卡蒙患有黑死病或肺结核。

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3. People praying for relief from the bubonic plague Photo: getty.
人们向上苍祈祷,以免受黑死病的折磨。图片来源:盖蒂图片社。

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4. The lung disease is caused by the same bacterium as bubonic plague.
这种肺病与黑死病一样,是由同一种杆菌引起的。

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5. Swiss bacteriologist who discovered the bacillus that causes bubonic plague.
瑞士细菌学家,曾发现了产生黑死病的杆状菌。

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6. The bubonic plague. Scarlet fever. Polio. Diseases of the past, and no longer on this Earth, right?
黑死病、猩红热和小儿麻痹症,以往的这些疾病,现在已经从地球上绝迹了吗?

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7. Take bubonic plague, for example. The disease is most commonly transmitted to humans through flea bites, and the fleas live on rodents.
以黑死病为例,最常见的方式是通过跳蚤叮咬传染给人类,而跳蚤在啮齿类动物身上生存。

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8. Perhaps it was his work in the midst of bubonic plague outbreaks that gave him his particular interest in apocalyptic visions of the future.
也许正是在面对黑死病的蔓延过程中,他开始对预言未来之事产生了特别的兴趣。

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9. Bacteria, in contrast, often just lurk in the environment (like tetanus), and may thrive on many hosts (as does bubonic plague, for example).
细菌却相反,它们潜伏在周围环境中(像是破伤风杆菌),并且宿主众多(比如说黑死病)。

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10. The graphic descriptions of the bubonic plague at the beginning of Boccaccio's Decameron show that Boccaccio was a first-hand witness of the plague.
薄驾丘《十日谈》一开头对黑死病栩栩如生的描述,显示薄伽丘亲眼目睹过黑死病。

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11. So yeah, you were better than, say, the year the bubonic plague took hold in Europe, eventually killing a third of the population. But that was 1348.
所以,是的!你比黑死病肆虐欧洲那年要好,那年三分之一的人口丧生。可那是1348。

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12. And bubonic plague, spread by rat fleas, is normally preceded by the death of hordes of rats (only then do the fleas opt for humans). Yet no one in 1348 recorded this.
黑死病由鼠蚤传播,在此之前通常都有大批的老鼠死亡(只有在这时跳蚤才选择人类作宿主),但在1348年没有人记录下这些。

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13. Europe razed almost half its temperate oak-, beech- and birch-woods in the Middle Ages, an onslaught only briefly reversed by an outbreak of bubonic plague in the 14th century.
欧洲在中世纪,也就是黑死病猖獗的14世纪,毁灭了大部分橡树、柏树和桦树。

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14. " The phrase "God bless you" is attributed to Pope Gregory the Great, who uttered it in the sixth century during a bubonic plague epidemic (sneezing is an obvious symptom of one form of the plague).
人们普遍认为“God 卧blessyou”这一短语起源于六世纪黑死病泛滥时期,出自罗马教皇格雷戈里之口。 (打喷嚏是这种瘟疫的一种明显征兆)。

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15. In 1616-1619 an epidemic, possibly of bubonic or pneumonic plague, swept coastal New England, killing as many as nine out of ten.
1616-1619年,一场可能是淋巴腺鼠疫或肺鼠疫的流行病席卷了新英格兰沿海地区,十人中有九人因此死亡。

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16. In 1616-1619 an epidemic, possibly of bubonic or pneumonic plague, swept coastal New England, killing as many as nine out of ten.
1616-1619年,一场可能是淋巴腺鼠疫或肺鼠疫的流行病席卷了新英格兰沿海地区,十人中有九人因此死亡。

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