Opponents of President Ali Bongo in Gabon have set the national assembly on fire.

加蓬现任总统阿里·邦戈的反国会搅得乌烟。

Not long before the Crimean War, miasma theory had become so widely accepted that the British government actually approved a plan to drain sewage into drinking water, because that would be less harmful than letting it pong on the surface.

在克里米亚战争前不久，理论被广泛接受，以至于英国政府批准了一项污水排入饮用水的计划，因为这样比让污水在地面上散发更无害。

I-I-I need music and dancing and secondhand smoke.

我要的纵情歌舞 乌烟。

The thought went that these gross conditions gave rise to miasmas that went on to cause major illnesses like cholera, malaria and the plague (aka Black Death) .

人们认为，这些恶劣的环境会导致，进而引发霍乱、疟疾和鼠疫(又名黑死病)等重大疾病。

Today we know that the plague spreads through a bacterium transmitted by fleas, but at the time the prevailing theory was that " miasma" , a kind of toxic cloud, made people sick when they breathed it in.

今天，我们知道黑死病通过跳蚤传播的细菌传播导致，但当时流行的理论一种“”导致了黑死病，后者一种使人吸入后患病的毒雾。

It's fine. I'm gonna tell the story. So, I bring him to this, uh, this pretty seedy strip club, you know, to make a man out of him, right?

没事的，我讲给大家听。然后我把他带到一个乌烟的脱衣舞俱乐部，想让他变成真正的男子汉。

The air was heavy with the dust beaten up by the heavy boots of the men, and gray with smoke. It was very hot.

男人们的大靴子扬起的尘土和口里喷出的烟雾弄得屋子乌烟。空又闷又热。

It was everything that miasma believers feared.

这正相理论的人所害怕的。

Miasma theory stated that disease was spread by miasmas, an outdated word that essentially means “bad air” or night air.

理论认为，疾病通过传播的，一个旧式用词，它主要意思“糟糕的空”或“暮色”。

Miasma theory was one of those things you sometimes hear about in history and they sound so screwy you almost can't believe people actually thought it was real.

理论你有时会在历史上听到的那些听起来很奇怪的东西之一，你几乎无法相人们真的认为它真的。

Miasmas were thought to emanate from foul smelling and unsanitary living conditions like human waste (yuck) , dirty water and rotting food.

被认为来自恶臭和不卫生的生活环境，如人类排泄物、脏水和腐烂的食物。

One of the oldest and most commonly held beliefs about the spread of disease was a practice known as “miasma theory.”

关于疾病的传播，最古老和最普遍持有的念之一一种被称为“理论”的东西。

In the mid-19th Century, if you got sick, there was only one explanation: miasma.

在 19 世纪中期，如果你生病了，只有一种解释：。

But miasma was still the theory British politicians and army medical brass believed.

但仍然英国政客和军队医疗高层所相的理论。

By the time Florence Nightingale came along, miasma wasn't the only theory in town.

到了弗洛伦丝·南丁格尔的年代，已经不唯一的理论了。

I guess even miasma didn't really want to hang around human excrement all day.

我想即使也不愿意整天待在人类粪便旁边。

The centuries old orthodoxy that bad air or miasma caused a host of diseases.

几个世纪以来的传统观点认为，坏空或导致了许多疾病。

I always think he's littering the palace with his poetry, terrible songs, somewhat depressing.

我总觉得他用那些诗作和糟糕的歌曲把宫殿搞得乌烟，令人有些沮丧。

Their period of triumph ended in a fog of financial crisis, economic conflict and resurgent nationalism Mr. Applebaum aims to focus public attention on the role of economists in the miasma's descent.

他们的胜利时期在金融危机、经济冲突和民族主义复兴的迷雾中结束。Applebaum 先生旨在让公众关注经济学家在下降中的作用。

I mean, it's an interesting history repeating itself back to almost a Victorian era of let's keep the windows open, almost weirdly back to your miasma stuff.

我的意思， 这段历史颇具趣味地重演， 几乎回到了维多利亚时代那种“让我们保持窗户敞开”的理念，奇怪地回归到了你所说的理论。