" This, " said the chemist, " is a scrofulous affection" .

" 看，" 药剂师说，" 淋巴腺结核！"

I'm told he lives with an ugly old Greek woman and has half a dozen scrofulous kids.

有人告诉我，他同一个丑陋的希腊老婆子住在一起，生了半打长着瘰疬疙瘩的小崽子。

It is terrible to see in China the first wave of this Western flood flinging along the coasts and rivers and railway lines its scrofulous foam of advertisements, of corrugated iron roofs, of vulgar, meaningless architectural form.

可怕的是，在中国看到西方洪水的第一波浪潮沿着海岸、河流和铁路线席卷而来，它的广告泡沫、波纹铁皮屋顶、庸俗的、毫无意义的建筑形式。