That was when the great plague epidemic in Europe, he dragged his weary body, filled the need for time to solve the question: what is the meaning of life?

当时正值欧洲大瘟疫肆虐，他拖着疲惫不堪的身子，内心充满了需要时间才能解开的疑问：生命的意义何在？

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The most scary thing of a great plague is not being infected and die suddenly but watching your own kind dying and just leave them in quarantine for self-preservation.

大瘟疫最恐怖之处并不在于被感染并很快死掉，而是眼睁睁地看着同类慢慢步入死亡，而为求自保却把他们遗忘在隔离区自生自灭。

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And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

肉在他们牙齿之间尚未嚼烂，耶和华的怒气就向他们发作，用最重的灾殃击杀了他们。

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One other report from old London is Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year, " a fictional, though chillingly persuasive, account of the metropolis under siege from the Great Plague in 1665.

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To the extent we continue to amass debt, our children and grandchildren will be saddled with a burden so great that it will make The Black Plague look like a walk in the park (hyperbole intended).

FORBES: Dear Mr. President: STOP THE MADNESS!!