They are not working in a coordinated fashion, but certainly they have got the message that if they don't do something soon, then the turmoil that we are seeing in Greece could easily spread to other countries and that it will be harder to turn around."

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

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。

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The Salem Fire Corporation showed up with its trucks and watched the house burn, just making sure that it didn't spread.

塞伦消防公司迅速开着消防车来到现场,眼睁睁看着房子烧掉，只是确保它不会蔓延。

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Fortunately, she hadn't been coughing much, so the disease hadn't spread widely.

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We can't spread best practices because we can't capture them in the first place.

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And then you get the state of environmental protection saying basically - stop sprawl, don't spread the housing all over the place, don't build new infrastructure, concentrate.

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