Mrs. Rachel was not often sick and had a well-defined contempt for people who were; but grippe, she asserted, was like no other illness on earth and could only be interpreted as one of the special visitations of Providence.

雷切尔夫人不常生病，而且对生病的人有一种明确的蔑视；但她断言，流行性感冒不同于地球上的任何其他疾病，只能被解释为普罗维登斯的特殊造访之一。