古德明英语军事小故事：尸 体 攻 城 (中英对照)
古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。尸 体 攻 城
in 1346, the tartar army besieged the city of kaffa, which is today's feodosia in the ukraine. they made use of an outbreak of the bubonic plague among their own troops by catapulting bodies of plague victims over the walls of kaffa in an attempt to initiate an epidemic in the city.
the bubonic plague is primarily a disease of rats and other rodents, and the bites of the fleas on rats can transmit the disease to humans. most probably, travelling on their hosts, the fleas also found their way into kaffa.
the defenders subsequently contracted the disease and the city fell to the tartars.
一 三 四 六 年 ， 鞑 靼 军 队 围 攻 卡 夫 法 城 ， 即 今 日 乌 克 兰 的 费 奥 多 西 亚 市 。 他 们 利 用 军 中 爆 发 的 黑 死 病 ， 以 弹 弩 把 病 死 者 尸 体 投 进 卡 夫 法 城 ， 务 求 疫 病 传 到 城 中 。
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