援助是那么少，那么晚，要不就是離急需的地區(qū)那么遠。這么一來饑荒和瘟疫就已經泛濫成災了。 Help has been too little and too late or too far from where it was most needed. The flood-gates of famine and pestilence are already open.
地震之后緊跟著就是瘟疫。 Plague came in the wake of earthquake.
那時一場大瘟疫正在該城肆虐。 A great plague was then raging in the city.
