There, George contracted the smallpox that pock-marked his face permanently but left him immune to the disease that later ravaged his Continental Army.

在那里，乔治感染了天花，脸上留下了永久性的痘痕，但他对后来肆虐大陆军的这种疾病却有。

Those who were lucky enough to survive smallpox were often scarred for life with pockmarked faces, the effect of the terrible pustules, or pox, that erupt.

幸运地从天花中存活下来的人，往往因满脸痘痕而终身留下疤痕，这是可怕的脓疱，即天花的爆发所造成的后果。三分之一的幸存者因此失明。