It was everything that miasma believers feared.

这正是相信瘴气理论人所害怕。

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

到了弗洛伦丝·尔年代，瘴气已经不是唯一理论了。

Wherever you look, covid-19 throws up a miasma of such trade-offs.

放眼望去，病毒所到之处都掀起了这股艰难取舍雾瘴。

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

但是瘴气仍然是英国政客和军队医疗高层所相信理论。

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：瘴气。

Miasma theory stated that disease was spread by miasmas, an outdated word that essentially means “bad air” or night air.

瘴气理论认为，病是通过瘴气传播，瘴气是一个旧式用词，它主要意思是“糟糕空气”或“暮色”。

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

关于病传播，最古老和最普遍持有信念之一是一种被称为“瘴气理论”东西。

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

几个世纪以来传统观点认为，坏空气或瘴气导致了病。

For centuries most people thought that miasmas, noxious vapours in the air, were to blame.

几个世纪以来，大数人认为瘴气，即空气中恶臭蒸汽，是罪魁祸首。

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

我想即使是瘴气也不愿意整天待在人类粪便旁边。

The miasmas, the gases that were rising from putrefied bodies were considered to be very unhealthy.

瘴气， 即腐烂尸体上升气体，被认为非常不健康。

A miasma is like a cloud of noxious gas that you can't see and it causes disease.

瘴气就像一团你看不见有毒气体，它会导致病。

You have surrounded this house with a miasma of scandal and touched all of us by association.

你让这个家陷入丑闻之中给我们也带来了连带伤害。

After traveling some way, they encountered a tall mountain shrouded in a miasma too disgusting to pass through.

走了一段路后，他们遇到了一座被瘴气笼罩高山，令人厌恶，无法通过。

In Europe, miasmas were associated with the air circulating over fetid swamps and marshes where local people were frequently infected.

在欧洲，瘴气与散发恶臭沼泽和湿地上空气有关，这些地方居民经常受到感染。

She changed the way that hospitals are built, but she was committed to this view that diseases were spread by essentially miasmas.

她改变了医院建设方式，但她坚持认为病主要是通过瘴气传播这一观点。

This recipe was inspired by the famed 2nd century Greco-Roman physician Galen, and was thought to ward off poisoned air known as miasma.

这个食谱灵感来自 2 世纪著名希腊罗马医生盖伦，被认为可以抵御被称为瘴气有毒空气。

At the time, the cause of the plague was not understood, but some physicians blamed a great pestilence in the air, the miasma theory.

当时， 瘟疫起因尚不为人所知，但一些医生将其归咎于空气中大疫病，即瘴气理论。

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，这些恶劣环境会导致瘴气，进而引发霍乱、疟和鼠疫(又名黑死病)等重大病。

Now, I would take herbs any day over the second remedy to save yourself from the miasma, which was to live in a sewer.

现在， 我宁愿每天服用草药， 也不愿采用第二种自救方法来避开瘴气，那就是住在下水道里。