pestilence

n. 瘟疫

A pestilence was raging in that area.

瘟疫正在那个地方流行。

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.

援助是那么少，那么晚，要不就是离急需的地区那么远。这么一来饥荒和瘟疫就已经泛滥成灾了。