If Banks have to borrow at penal rates for some time, the poison will spread.

如果银行必须为借款付出惩罚性利率持续一段时间的话，这毒素将会蔓延开来。

youdao

It involved duels, poison or, at the very least, clever rumors that took ingenuity to create and patience to spread.

报复的形式有决斗、下毒之类，至少也得是巧妙的谣言，这些谣言需要精妙的构思，还得有耐心去传播。

youdao

Then, over dessert, casually slip into the conversation the poison that their secret client wanted them to spread.

然后在吃甜点时，不经意地把话题转到他们的客户想要传播的谣言上。

youdao

Most efforts to curb their spread have failed, and many people resort to killing the toads with poison gases or by freezing them.

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