And yet, our distress comes from no failure of substance, we are stricken by no plague of locusts.

但是，我们的苦恼决不是因为缺乏物资。我们没有遭到什么蝗虫的灾害。

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And bubonic plague, spread by rat fleas, is normally preceded by the death of hordes of rats (only then do the fleas opt for humans). Yet no one in 1348 recorded this.

黑死病由鼠蚤传播，在此之前通常都有大批的老鼠死亡(只有在这时跳蚤才选择人类作宿主)，但在1348年没有人记录下这些。

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The bubonic plague. Scarlet fever. Polio. Diseases of the past, and no longer on this Earth, right?

黑死病、猩红热和小儿麻痹症，以往的这些疾病，现在已经从地球上绝迹了吗？

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The third plague in each set has no forewarning and no introduction.

每组的第三次瘟疫即没有预先示警，也没有任何指令。

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Unlike Malthus, who saw no remedy except plague or abstinence, Knowlton believed that a more agreeable solution was at hand.

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Worse, it is no longer just mortgages that plague banks (see article).

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However, there is no risk to people's health now because the plague bacteria cannot survive long in the soil, Crossrail says.

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