0 any very serious infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people -- 瘟疫，疫病
There is the source of the recurring pestilence.
I wanted to keep out pestilence, disease and that sort of thing.
The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at allit is very tiresome.
There will be stirrings of nations and evil reports, pestilences, famines, and earth quakes in various places.
Again, the pestilences which devastate the land periodically can only be held in check by the vigilance, the energy and the resource of the officials concerned.
Millions of people are condemned to an early death and pestilences and famines rage throughout the country.
Delays are one of the pestilences from which men suffer.
The alternative is possible war, famine and pestilence.
