For me, it was the literary equivalent of a smallpox vaccination: I have never, so far as I know, used the word zestful in a novel or a story. God willing, I never will.

对我，就像注射了文学意义上的牛痘，终生对天花免疫：据我知道，我写短篇也好，长篇也罢，从没有用过“热情的”个词，总是尽力避免。

His own self-published booklet, An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, was initially ignored by the medical community.

他自己出版的小册子《关于牛痘病毒接种的原因与结果调查》一开始遭到了医学界忽视。

And the scientific term for cowpox is at the heart of our story about the English word, " vaccine" .

牛痘的科学术语是关于英语词" vaccine（疫苗）" 的故事的核心。

It worked by infecting people with pus from pox lesions caused by similar but far less pernicious conditions, like cowpox.

其工作原理是让人们感染痘疹伤口流出的脓产生免疫，些痘疹由类似但危害性小得多的疾病（如牛痘）引起。

For example, they're looking into whether less virulent relatives of coronavirus could protect against COVID-19 the way vaccinia protects against smallpox.

例如，他们在研究毒性较低的冠状病毒亲属能否像牛痘预防天花那样预防新冠肺炎。

He conducted an experiment by injecting a child with a small amount of pus taken from a cowpox pustule.

他进行了一项实验，给一个孩子注射了少量牛痘脓疱中的脓液。

They were known to get a mild disease called cowpox.

人们发现，她们会得一种叫做牛痘的轻微疾病。

Vaccinia virus is actually the virus that is used in the vaccines for smallpox and monkeypox.

牛痘病毒实际上是用于天花和猴痘疫苗的病毒。

Monkeypox is an Ortohopoxvirus that's related to smallpox and vaccinia virus.

猴痘是一种口蹄疫病毒，与天花和牛痘病毒有关。

She told Jenner that one of her cows, named Blossom, had recently suffered from cowpox.

她告诉詹纳，一头名叫布洛瑟姆的奶牛最近患了牛痘。

However, this disease was quite mild by comparison and those who contracted cowpox were then immune to smallpox.

然而，相比之下，种疾病相当温和，那些感染了牛痘的人对天花有免疫力。

Cowpox would often cause a few sores, but it is not serious.

牛痘经常会引起一些小脓疮，但并不严重。

But the vaccinia virus is only distantly related to the variola virus that causes smallpox.

但是牛痘病毒与引起天花的天花病毒关系疏远。

Jenner drew a blade, slick with ooze from a cowpox blister, across the arm of James Phipps, the brave and healthy son of his gardener.

詹纳抽出一把光滑的刀片，沾上牛痘水泡粘液，划过詹姆斯·菲普斯的手臂，菲普斯是园丁勇敢健康的儿子。

The antibodies produced to fight the cowpox bacteria had been able to fight off the smallpox bacteria.

为对抗牛痘细菌而产生的抗体已经能够对抗天花细菌。

He studied a similar disease in cows called cowpox and realized that people in contact with the infected cows became ill with symptoms resembling smallpox.

他在牛身上研究了一种类似的疾病，称为牛痘，并意识到与受感染的牛接触的人会出现类似天花的症状。

The nine year old, predictably, got cowpox.

不出所料，个九岁的孩子得了牛痘。

Jenner suspected that her blister might give him the opportunity to test whether cowpox was humanity's long-awaited cure.

詹纳猜想她身上的水泡可能会给他一个测试牛痘是否是人类期待已久的治疗方法的机会。

Cowpox is a disease that affects cows but can spread to humans through a scratch or cut.

牛痘是一种影响奶牛的疾病，但可以通过抓伤或割伤传染给人类。

Now, young James, he got a little fever from the cowpox, but he bounced back.

现在，小詹姆士因为牛痘有点发烧，但他很快就康复了。