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The airborne plague is fundamentally different,
通过空气传播的鼠疫病菌在进化上有质的突破
because it now can be transmitted from human being to human being.
因为这种病菌已经可以 在人与人之间传播
The kill rate was 75%...Now nearly 100.
致死率由以往的75%...激增至近100%

In six months, 31,000 people,60% of Siena, wiped out.
六个月内 三万一千人一命呜呼 锡耶纳人口锐减60%
More than two out of every three persons you knew in Siena were gone.
锡耶纳城内超过三分之二的居民 都死于病魔之下
Families decimated, clans decimated.Everybody decimated.
家庭流离失所 部族萎缩没落 人人思之自危
"I, Agnolo di Tura, buried my children""With my own hands.
在下 阿格诺罗·迪·图拉 亲手安葬膝下子女
"There was no one who wept for any death,"For all awaited death."
无人再为死亡恫涕 人人都笼罩在死亡的阴影下
"So many died, that all believed it was the end of the world."
死者不计其数 世人认定这就是世界末日"
Fear and panic sets in,and you're asking yourself, "What's causing this?
恐惧 惊慌随之席卷而来 人人不禁扪心自问 "什么导致了这一切?"
"Did I do something wrong? Did I forget to go to church?"
"我做过什么错事吗? 我忘了去教堂吗?"
And each symptom seems like the devil is doing it.
种种迹象无不将疑团指向恶魔所为
The overwhelming theory was an avenging god,
当时占据上风的理论认为一切源自上帝的报复
that somehow this was the anger of God causing this disease.
不知何故上帝怒火中烧 就让这疾病肆虐人间

重点讲解

1、transmit
传送;传递;播送
The game was transmitted live in Spain and Italy.
这场比赛在西班牙和意大利进行了现场直播。
The information is electronically transmitted to schools and colleges
信息通过电子方式传送到各所学校和学院。
传播，传染(疾病)
mosquitoes that transmit disease to humans.
传染疾病给人类的蚊子
There was no danger of transmitting the infection through operations.
不存在通过手术传播这种传染病的风险。
传达，传输(思想、感情)
The message they are transmitting to their daughters is very different from that of previous generations
他们向女儿传输的信息与上几代人截然不同。
He transmitted his keen enjoyment of singing to the audience.
他把自己对演唱的激情投入传递给了观众。
2、believe
相信；认为
Experts believe that the coming drought will be extensive.
专家们认为即将发生的旱灾将侵袭大片地区。
I believe you have something of mine.
我想你拿了我什么东西。
相信（某人或某人的话）
He did not sound as if he believed her.
他听起来似乎并不相信她。
Never believe anything a married man says about his wife.
永远不要相信一个已婚男人说的任何有关他妻子的话。
（表示惊奇）难以置信
Many officers I spoke to found it hard to believe what was happening around them.
很多和我谈过的官员都觉得发生在他们周围的事情令人难以置信。
I was a physical and emotional wreck — I still can't believe how I ever got any work done.
我那时身心俱疲——现在还难以相信我是怎么把一些事情做成的。