The airborne plague is fundamentally different,
通過空氣傳播的鼠疫病菌在進化上有質的突破
because it now can be transmitted from human being to human being.
因為這種病菌已經可以 在人與人之間傳播
The kill rate was 75%...Now nearly 100.
致死率由以往的75%...激增至近100%
In six months, 31,000 people,60% of Siena, wiped out.
六個月內 三萬一千人一命嗚呼 錫耶納人口銳減60%
More than two out of every three persons you knew in Siena were gone.
錫耶納城內超過三分之二的居民 都死于病魔之下
Families decimated, clans decimated.Everybody decimated.
家庭流離失所 部族萎縮沒落 人人思之自危
"I, Agnolo di Tura, buried my children""With my own hands.
在下 阿格諾羅·迪·圖拉 親手安葬膝下子女
"There was no one who wept for any death,"For all awaited death."
無人再為死亡恫涕 人人都籠罩在死亡的陰影下
"So many died, that all believed it was the end of the world."
死者不計其數 世人認定這就是世界末日"
Fear and panic sets in,and you're asking yourself, "What's causing this?
恐懼 驚慌隨之席卷而來 人人不禁捫心自問 "什么導致了這一切?"
"Did I do something wrong? Did I forget to go to church?"
"我做過什么錯事嗎? 我忘了去教堂嗎?"
And each symptom seems like the devil is doing it.
種種跡象無不將疑團指向惡魔所為
The overwhelming theory was an avenging god,
當時占據上風的理論認為一切源自上帝的報復
that somehow this was the anger of God causing this disease.
不知何故上帝怒火中燒 就讓這疾病肆虐人間