If the vaccine campaign fails to take off in Europe, the society says, the swine flu pandemic may even spread more widely and cause more deaths, particularly among children and young adults.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

In the 1920s, things changed because the telephone first became widely spread.

在20世纪20年代,随着电话的普及,情况发生了改变

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Certainly it seems more and more clear that what we call "normal" in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread " that we don't even notice it ordinarily."

显然，我们平常称之为'正常'的东西“,在心理学上，实际是种大众精神病理，看上去平平无奇却又非常广泛,我们甚至没有注意到它“

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