That's not meant to be a bad word but suggests being influenced, one might say, in the sense of "open the window and influenza," by those signs that precede it.

这不是个不好的词，只是想要表达影响的意思，人们可能说将一个符号之前的符号称作是“,“打开了窗户，引发了流感“

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It could be that in thinking about the nature of the combination we're led to see that in certain ways the combination-- the interaction effects--are negative, are bad ones.

可能在考虑这种组合的本质时,我们看到了再某些方面这种组合-,相互影响，是负面的，是不好的。

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