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。 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.
地震之后紧跟着就是瘟疫。 Plague came in the wake of earthquake.
那时一场大瘟疫正在该城肆虐。 A great plague was then raging in the city.
