A bacterium called Yersinia pestis causes the plague. It's transmitted to humans by fleas.

这场疫由一种名为鼠疫杆菌的细菌引发。这种细菌通过跳蚤传染给人类。

The incidence of cholera in the camps has reached plague proportions.

营中霍乱流行已酿成疫之灾。

By 1269, Dutch monks were producing a special juniper-based spirit said to cure the plague.

到1269年，荷兰的僧侣们生产了一种特殊的杜松子酒，据说可以治疗疫。

Well, we're such social pariahs these days, I'm surprised to see anyone.

我们现在是社交疫，人人避之，我见到谁都很惊讶。

Because of all this he became possessed of a great pride in himself, which communicated itself like a contagion to his physical being.

因为这些, 他开始感到无比的自豪, 这种自豪又像疫一样感染了他的肉体.

This place was a human cesspit, a place where pestilence and disease roamed the hallways, trailing death in their wake.

这是一个人类粪坑，疫和疾病在走廊里游荡，伴随着死亡。

Ironically, Europe, which had bequeathed the rabbit as a pest to Australia, acquired this man-made disease as a pestilence.

具有讽刺意味的是，欧洲把这种兔子作为有害动物传给澳洲，而欧洲自己却染上了这种人为的疫般的疾病。

We are like a plague sweeping the earth, tearing apart the very environment that allows us to live.

我们似乎成为了一种肆虐地球的疫，把赖以生存的环境破坏的支离破碎。

While the failure to control it is precisely because the division of mankind, perhaps the problem of globalization can only be solved through human solidarity.

不能控制疫的原因恰恰是人类的分裂，也许全球化的问题也只能通过人类的团结才能予以解决。

The great plague, great fires, Nazi bombs, extreme crime and poverty.

疫，大火，纳粹击，极端分子犯罪和贫困。

Because that would suggest that what we really have an epidemic of is not caring.

因为这显示了我们真正感染的是名为“漠视”的疫。

He is a giant and the decay of his body could cause a plague which could spread throughout the kingdom.

他是个巨人，他身体的腐烂可能会引起一场遍及全国的疫。

Take for example, the plague that hit Europe in the 14th century.

举个例子，14世纪侵欧洲的疫。

The source of almost one in every three boards hammered into American homes, and where a plague of beetles arrived with the power to kill 100,000 trees a day.

几乎三分之一的木板都来自于此，那里爆发了一场甲虫疫，每天能杀死10万棵树。

Millions died in the outbreak, including Huayna Capac and his designated heir.

几百万印加人死于疫，包括瓦伊纳·卡帕克及其指定继承人。

No pandemic, no natural disaster, no war.

无论是疫，天灾，或者战争。

It was built to commemorate the end of a deadly plague in the city.

它是为了纪念该市一场致命疫的结束而建造的。

Yes. Wars and plagues – infectious, epidemic diseases which spread between countries can quickly wipe out – or completely destroy, millions of people.

是的。战争和疫——在国家间传播的传染性流行病，可以迅速消灭——或完全摧毁数百万人。

Terrible business. The plague of the countryside.

糟糕的勾当。农村的疫。

Michelangelo and Rembrandt painted in its shadow; the plague took Titian's life.

米开朗基罗和伦勃朗也在黑死病的阴影下作画；疫夺去了提香的生命。