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开始练这一级 →In 1854 a young doctor studied epidemiology.一八五四年，一位年轻医生研究「流行病学」。 For many weeks he walked from house to house while an epidemic grew.好几个星期里，他挨家挨户地走访，而一场「流行病」正在蔓延。 People told him their stories, and he wrote every answer down.人们对他讲自己的故事，他把每个回答都记下来。
He visited homes and took notes on every family.他去过很多人家，给每一家都做了记录。 In the evening he filled a glass cylinder at the public pump.傍晚，他在公共水泵那里装满了一个玻璃「圆柱体」。 He could not conceive of a cause, yet a metaphor came to him.他想不出有哪一个单一的「原因」，却想到了一个「隐喻」。 Two babies died, and their maternal aunt asked why.有两个婴儿死去了，「母亲」那边的姑姑问为什么会这样。
But the men who ran the city held an old ideology.但管理这座城市的那些人抱着一种旧的「意识形态」。 They believed that bad air caused all illness, so they changed nothing.他们相信坏空气导致了所有的病，所以他们什么也没改。 Their belief had a monopoly on every official report.他们的信念「垄断」了每一份官方报告。 The doctor once found a rib fracture in a sick baby.医生还曾在一个生病婴儿身上发现过一根肋骨的「骨折」。
At last he put his map on the table.最后他把地图放在桌上。 Red marks stood for each case, one line for the pump.红点代表每一个病例，一条线指向那个水泵。 The marks converge on one point, and the convergence is clear.那些标记「汇聚」到一处，这种「汇合」很清楚。 That night they removed the handle from the pump, and the epidemic lost its momentum.那天夜里，他们拆掉了水泵的把手，「流行病」也就失去了「势头」。
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