he says with some pique. Some people intuitively sense that the chief cause of the tuberculosis upswing must be dirty air and worsening air pollution, but most doctors dismiss that notion, because the TB bacillus is transmitted through saliva.
他有點生氣地說：「誰說老人一定要一天到晚咳嗽的！」也有人直覺地把日益嚴重的空氣汙染、廢氣瀰漫，聯想為結核病死灰復燃的禍首。