Heathcliff, having stared his son into an ague of confusion, uttered a scornful laugh.

希刺克厉夫盯着他的儿子，盯得他儿子慌张打颤，他发出一声嘲弄的笑声。

" I think you have got the ague, " said I.

" 我想你有这个意思，" 我说。

He was shivering as if with ague.

他浑身发抖，好像得了热病。

He was shivering with a kind of ague.

他得了一种热病，浑身发抖。

" It must be something like the tertian ague, " he said.

“它一定是像隔日瘟疫一样的东西， ” 他说。

Peruvian bark was good at relieving ague symptoms, but really expensive, and he thought willow might work as a cheaper alternative.

秘鲁树皮可以缓解瘟疫症状，但非常昂贵，他认为柳树可能是更便宜的替代品。

So, they did not know what could have caused their fever 'n' ague.

所以，他们不知道是什么导致了他们的发烧和疟疾。

Mrs. Scott said that all the settlers, up and down the creek, had fever 'n' ague.

斯科特夫人说，小溪上下的所有定居者都得了热病。

The horse was better now, but the bad night air so near the creek had given them fever 'n' ague.

这匹马现在好多了，但是离小溪很近的夜间空气让他们发烧了。

No one knew, in those days, that fever V ague was malaria, and that some mosquitoes give it to people when they bite them.

在那些日子里， 没有人知道发烧是疟疾，有些蚊子叮咬人后会将其传染给人类。