So franchise as a concept, have been well-spread in China.

所以“特许经营”这个概念，在中国其实已经广泛的传播开来了。

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The spread of democracy in Eastern Europe appears to have had negative as well as positive consequences.

东欧民主政体的蔓延看来既有消极也有积极的影响。

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An emerging body of research shows that positive health habits as well as negative ones spread through networks of friends via social communication.

一个新兴的研究机构表明，积极的健康习惯和消极的健康习惯都通过社交在朋友圈中传播。

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Because it was precisely because of this one world, run by the Romans and maintained by the Romans, that allowed the spread of Christianity, to a great extent, both ideologically and thought-wise, as well as simply physically.

因为正是由罗马人统治维持的，这个统一的世界，给予基督教在大范围面积内广为传播的机会，不仅是在意识形态和智慧方面，还有物质条件方面。

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His wife Clara, 46, a lawyer who has worked part-time while raising the couple's two children, is ready to increase her billable hours to boost the family income as she and Don begin the final push toward their goal: leaving the workaday world, still youthfully vigorous, to own and operate a bed-and-breakfast in the Berkshires, as well as a 1.7-acre spread for raising ostriches.

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Ms Neighbour offers no grand prescriptions for dealing with terrorism, but her book is a compelling, readable and well-informed account of an Islamist terror network that has spread across South-East Asia.

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But demand has spread well beyond modern-day Scarlett O'Haras.

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