Plants may use it to steal food from each other, or spread chemicals to attack other plants.

植物可能利用它窃取彼此的食物，或传播化学物质来攻击其他植物。

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But they share one fundamental characteristic: they spread themselves and attack before their targets know what is happening.

但是，他们拥有一个最基本的特征：他们能让自己传播开来，并在其目标发觉之前发动进攻。

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He says such changes would protect America's food sources from possible attack, reduce the spread of food poisoning and improve the economies of rural areas.

他认为这种改变将保护美国食物资源不受可能存在的攻击问题，减少食物中毒的传播，提高农村地区的经济水平。

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By this time, word of Brown's attack had spread to Charles Town, more than twelve kilometers away.

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If the immune system weakens at any point, they begin to spread and then attack.

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Here are two credible threats to global systems: a massive cyber attack that could spread to the rest of world and interfere with SCADA systems everywhere and carbon whiskers that could short out power transmission systems.

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Speculation has spread over possible motives for the attack - including the possibility that a competitor is looking to set up a rival site on the network.

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The malware was employed in an attack against Apple and other companies, and was spread through a website for software developers.

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