No, we call that work positive work. All right, so that means we need to put a negative sign right here, by convention.

历史上有过不同的习惯，这里我们规定,如果环境对系统做功。

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Whatever the convention is within a system of differences, that's what makes the sign intelligible.

这些惯例存在于一个有差别的系统中，这就让符号变得有意义了。

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Convention, OK, this negative sign is just a pure convention. You just got to use it all the time. If you use an old textbook, written when I was taking thermodynamics, they have the opposite convention, and it's very confusing. But now we've all agreed on this convention, and work is going to be with the negative sign here.

系统对外界做功的符号为负,这就是我们,在本课中的规定，纯粹出于统一符号的需要，有些教科书中，可能会使用相反的符号规定,注意不要混淆了，这门课上,我们将一直使用。

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