Wherever you look, covid-19 throws up a miasma of such trade-offs.
放眼望去,病所到之处都掀起艰难取舍的雾瘴。
Not long before the Crimean War, miasma theory had become so widely accepted that the British government actually approved a plan to drain sewage into drinking water, because that would be less harmful than letting it pong on the surface.
在克里米亚战争前不久,瘴气理论被广泛接受,以至于英国政府批准一项将污水排入饮用水的计划,因为样比让污水在地面上散发更无害。