疫病

PLAGUEえきびょう[/pleɪɡ/]名詞

解説

古代では、免疫を持つ支配者を諫めるために罪なき民全体に下された懲罰。

現代の疫病は、自然が気まぐれに不愉快さを見せる表現。

付記

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Original

In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

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