They felt it was God's will, and their duty,to spread American democracy and freedom across the continent.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

This was why Christianity and other things were able to spread so easily, why Paul was able to travel around the empire.

所以基督教及其他信息,能传播地如此迅速，所以保罗能够周游帝国。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So, there was a savings bank movement, which spread from the U.K. To the U.S. in the nineteenth century and it was a philanthropic movement.

于是便有了一场储蓄银行的运动,这股风在19世纪从英国刮到了美国,这也是一场博爱运动

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Yet many Americans believed the real purpose was to permit the spread of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

I want to end this premise idea by talking a little bit about a person for whom, one of the chief purpose in life was to spread happiness-- Mahatma Gandhi. This is a story about him.

我想以介绍一位,一生致力于，传播快乐的人来结论这个前提-,圣雄甘地，这是关于他的一个故事。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He believed the music was an easy and effective way to spread his message.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Yet, they wanted to get clean and so what device they used was to take oil, typically olive oil, spread it on themselves, then get a scrapper, a metal scrapper, and scrap off the oil with it what was underneath the oil.

当他们想要保持清洁时,他们所使用的东西就是油,通常是橄榄油,把橄榄油抹在身上,然后拿一个刮板,金属刮板,把污垢和油一起刮下来

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They said it was part of a southern plan to spread slavery wherever possible.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

We had a big scare in 1998; it started with the Asian financial crisis and then it spread to Russia and there was this terrible collapse in Russia in 1998, when the government couldn't pay its debts.

我们经历过最大的一次经济创伤是在1998年;,这次金融危机因亚洲金融危机而起,然后蔓延到俄罗斯,随后对俄罗斯的经济产生了极大地冲击，俄政府担负不起债务。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It was the toughest measure taken in Asia to curb the spread of the virus.

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

Daniel's pancreas was removed, but the cancer had already spread to his liver.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12