Diffusion

(noun.) the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another.

(noun.) (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration.

编辑:奥斯本

• The centre of diffusion of wheat was somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean region. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Experience, with young people, easily illustrates the possibility and value of diffusion. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• All high school boys and girls know the difference between the concentration and the diffusion of this impulse, although they would be hopelessly bewildered by the use of terms. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But though there was a wide diffusion of knowledge under the empire, there was no true intellectual progress. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Thus the very workingmen who agitate for a better diffusion of wealth display a marked hostility to improvements in the production of it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The seed must have been brought age by age from that distant centre of diffusion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There seemed a general diffusion of cheerfulness on the occasion. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.

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