Private business originated in agriculture, spread to the cities, and then returned to the countryside as rural-based industry.

私营企业从农业开始起步，渐渐蔓延到城市，再回到乡镇，变成基于农村的企业。

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A ubiquitous woodland mix of lawn grasses and trees has found its way throughout Europe and the United States, and it's now spread to other cities around the world.

一种无处不在的草地和树木混合的林地已经遍布欧洲和美国，现在已经蔓延到世界各地的其他城市。

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For many cities in the world, there is no room to spread out further, among which New York is an example.

对于世界上许多城市来说，已经没有进一步扩展的空间了，纽约就是其中的一个例子。

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But with the revolution of democracy in Athens, which also spread then to other Greek cities, partly because Athens did what George Bush tried to do in Iraq, they tried to force democracy on other Greek cities around the Eastern Mediterranean also.

但随着雅典民主革命的进行，这场革命随后传到了其他希腊城市，原因之一，类似小布什在伊拉克的计划，雅典企图把民主制度,推行到地中海东部的其他希腊城市。

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