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This is how Welsh poet Jeuan Gethin saw it,waiting for his own infection,which, sure enough, came in 1349.

这是威尔士诗人约恩·格瑟对此的描述 他当时正在等待自己的死期 他是在1349年被感染的

We see death coming into our midst like foul smoke.

死亡仿佛浓烟一般来到我们中间

A plague which cuts off the young,a rootless phantom which has no mercy.

致年轻人于死地的瘟疫 仿佛飘忽不定的无情鬼魅

Woe is me of the shilling in the armpit.

我的灾难 就是腋窝中如先令的创口

It is of the form of an apple, like the head of an onion.

仿佛苹果的形状 又如洋葱的尖头

Great is its seething, like a burning cinder.A grievous thing of ashy colour.

最难忍耐的是炙热 仿佛烧红的煤块 还有令人忧伤的灰烬色彩

It is an ugly eruption that comes with unseemly haste.

它的爆发丑恶而又迅速

They are like a shower of peas,the early ornaments of Black Death.

好像洗了个豌豆澡一般 它们 是黑死病的饰品

It took about six days from the bite of an infected flea for the tell-tale swellings, the buboes,

从被受感染的跳蚤叮咬 到患者颈部 腹股沟或腋窝

to appear on a victim's neck, groin or armpit,accompanied by violent fever and agonising pain.

出现明显肿胀 淋巴结炎只需六天 伴随剧烈的高热和难忍的疼痛

The immune system would be overwhelmed within a week.

一周之内免疫系统将全面崩溃

If the infection reached the lungs,death came after just a couple of days of bloody coughing.

如果感染侵及肺部 几天的咯血便能轻易取人性命

Anyone who inhaled even the tiniest droplets of mucus would be doomed to suffer in their turn.

任何吸入患者飞沫的人 都注定将遭遇同样的下场

词汇解析

1、come into

继承(财产、封号等)

My father has just come into a fortune in diamonds.

我父亲刚刚继承一大批钻石。

在…中起作用

We don't really know where Hortense comes into all this.

我们真的不清楚霍滕斯在这中间起什么作用。

It's an unrestricted journey, and rules of any sort don't come into it.

这是一次没有任何限制的旅行，所有的规则都不起作用。

2、accompany

陪伴；陪同

Ken agreed to accompany me on a trip to Africa.

肯答应陪我一起去非洲。

She was accompanied by her younger brother.

她由弟弟陪着。

伴随；和…一起发生（或同时存在）

This volume of essays was designed to accompany an exhibition in Cologne.

这本文集是为配合在科隆举办的一场展览而出的。

The proposal was instantly voted through with two to one in favour, accompanied by enthusiastic applause.

在热烈的掌声中，提案以2比1的优势很快通过了表决。

为（歌手或乐手）伴奏

He sang and Alice accompanied him on the piano.

他一边唱，艾丽斯一边为他钢琴伴奏。

We ended with Blake's Jerusalem, accompanied on the organ by Herbert Wiseman.

在赫伯特·怀斯曼的风琴伴奏下，我们演唱了布莱克的《耶路撒冷》作为终曲。