Spread

(noun.) act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time.

(noun.) the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age); 'she exercised to avoid that middle-aged spread'.

(noun.) two facing pages of a book or other publication.

(noun.) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space.

(noun.) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes.

(verb.) distribute or disperse widely; 'The invaders spread their language all over the country'.

(verb.) become distributed or widespread; 'the infection spread'; 'Optimism spread among the population'.

(verb.) strew or distribute over an area; 'He spread fertilizer over the lawn'; 'scatter cards across the table'.

(verb.) spread across or over; 'A big oil spot spread across the water'.

(verb.) cover by spreading something over; 'spread the bread with cheese'.

(verb.) distribute over a surface in a layer; 'spread cheese on a piece of bread'.

(adj.) prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out; 'a table spread with food' .

手打:斯蒂芬

• These got fairly to work at the beginning of the century, and the uses of machinery spread to the treatment of leather. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A people called the Cimmerians appear in the districts of Lake Urumiya and Van, and shortly after Aryans have spread from Armenia to Elam. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Her perpetual study was to relieve us from labour and to spread ease and even elegance over our altered mode of life. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Meanwhile the water strains through the wire cloth, leaving a thin layer of moist interlaced fibre spread in a white sheet over the surface of the belt. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The word was taken up by the students of Harvard University, and gradually spread throughout the whole country. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I watched to see whether it would spread: but no; as it did not diminish, so it did not enlarge. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The fund was, of course, for the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their maintenance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The buffalo-skins, doubled in fours, were spread all along one side, and four men, with great difficulty, lifted the heavy form of Tom into it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Replacing her daughter on the couch, she smoothed the pillow and spread the sheet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He made these of honey, of barley, and, as the Aryan tribes spread southward, of the grape. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When the bed is finished, the strips are clamped with steel clamps, the turned-up ends of which firmly grip the sides of the bed, thus preventing warping or spreading. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Brotherhood through sorrow, sorrow for common sufferings and for irreparable mutual injuries, is spreading and increasing throughout the world. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Indeed, you are doing a very unkind thing in spreading the report, and you will find that you have though you will not believe me now. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• This cross wall should be so worked into the side walls as to hold them securely, and thus prevent the silo from spreading on the sides. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• But how your practice is spreading! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• One of the difficulties in silo construction is to avoid spreading of the building, which sometimes occurs through lateral pressure of the contents when settling. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Its top is spreading, and is ornamented with a thick and glossy foliage. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• If well spiked there will be no danger from spreading at the corners. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• It almost made him sick to see the wave of a table-cloth when the servants were spreading it. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• In semi-civilised countries, with little free communication, the spreading of a new sub-breed will be a slow process. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It stands up high and spreads far abroad, and is unfathomably deep. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Here it is certain, the imagination spreads out the whole figure. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Through all the world spreads the suspicion that this scheme of things might be remade, and remade better, and that our present evils need not be. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• What am I to do to fill the interval of time which spreads between me and the grave? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It roots deeply where it spreads. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Dull Englishman as you are, the land of romance spreads her wonders in vain for you. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• There was a spreading, though, as a cobra's hood spreads. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The flame soon spreads from the wick to the overflowing oil and in consequence the lamp blazes and an explosion may result. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• All culture begins with private men and spreads outward from them. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Tell the grand inquisitor and his council from me to be at their posts, and to lay the axe at the root of the evil before it spreads further. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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