plague spot

同根派生

It is not through drugs that they have improved the general health, cleaned up plague spots, cut down infant mortality, lengthened the average life expectancy of mankind by fifteen years.
医学并不是通过药品来改善大众的健康状况、阻止瘟疫传播、降低婴儿出生死亡率、延长15年的人类平均寿命期望值。）
The bubonic plague swept off most of the villagers.
那场淋巴腺鼠疫夺去了大部分村民的生命。
Many people were taken off by the Black Plague.
许多人被黑死病夺去了生命。
A great plague was then raging in the city.
那时一场大瘟疫正在该城肆虐。
I'm afraid we are in for a spot of trouble.
恐怕我们是一定要遇到麻烦了。