Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished.

动物们来到这里，喜欢这里的景色，占据了它们的栖息地，定居下来，繁衍生息。

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She gazed down in wonder at the city spread below her.

她俯视展现在眼前的城市，惊叹不已。

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We'll want to have an endless spread out Internet for power systems, with all kinds of people pushing power from their rooftops down the grid."

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People who came by land you would be hearing rumblings about down the road from villages that were spread out, but if somebody comes in from the sea on a ship, you may find them there in the morning and you don't know what's what.

陆上来客总伴随着车马隆隆声,沿着途经的村庄一路传来,但是如果有人乘船从海上到来,当他早上来到时你会发现,你对他一无所知

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But Thailand's stock market fell for a second day, down more than eight percent in trading, after rumors spread about the health of King Bhumiphol Adulyadej.

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Over the past decade or so the just-in-time concept of having supplies delivered at the last minute, so as to keep inventories down, has spread down the global manufacturing chain.

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"They don't make the population immune, but they buy you time, either by preventing influenza from getting into the community or slowing down the spread, " Markel said.

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The new approach uses four or five weaker defences, for example reducing the area of the wheat plant that Ug99 destroys, or slowing down the spread of the fungus.

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