Cabinet members began to arrive, while wild reports spread through the city: the Confederates had declared war again!

VOA: special.2009.12.31

The influence of the so-called Konstanz School spread to the United States and had many ramifications here, particularly and crucially in the early work of another critic we'll be turning to later in the semester, Stanley Fish.

所谓康斯坦流派当时的影响,已经扩大到美国,并在美国有了许多分支，尤其是另一批评家,斯坦利，费什的重要努力促成了这个局面,这个人物在我们这个学期的后期会讲到。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The cancer had not spread to other parts of the body yet.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

Daniel's pancreas was removed, but the cancer had already spread to his liver.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

Word that pop idol Michael Jackson had died spread rapidly through New York City, as stunned residents sent text messages and emails to inform friends of the news.

VOA: standard.2009.06.27