World markets continue their downward spiral as investors try to gauge the direction of the global economy.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

That's probably as important a decision as placing it, as deciding which direction to hit, and it turns out to matter.

踢球的力度与射门的方向,这两者是同样重要的

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And as far as I see, like, I love to keep going in that direction and...

而且依我所见，我喜欢沿着这个方向继续……

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"We are seeing progress. It's probably not as fast as we would like it to be but certainly the direction of travel is positive.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

and as we all know radically turned to an opposite direction and the reason that it did.

正如我们所知道的，塔利班分子变成了一股更强大的势利。

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While the FDA's recommendations are seen as a step in the right direction, they are voluntary.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

So you can see, if it's spinning on its own axis in this direction we'd call it spin up, where as this way it would be what we call spin down.

你们可以看到，如果它绕自己的轴朝这个方向转,我们就说它是自旋朝上，这个方向我们叫它自旋朝下。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"The talk issue is not going to be anything serious, other than buying time for both the Iranian regime and the Iranian opposition, because as far as the Iranian regime is concerned, no steps are being taken in the direction of bridging the gaps with the opposition anymore,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

We find slavery repeatedly instituted by God or by men acting under his immediate care and direction, as in the instance of Moses and Joshua.

我们反复发现上帝一直在推行奴隶制,或是借人之手,操作施行,就像摩西和乔舒亚的故事一样

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But this goes in a slightly different direction as well.

但这也同时朝着,稍微不同的方向发展。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I mentioned something of increasing importance only later, which is that you are free to pick another set of axes, not in the traditional x and y direction, but as an oblique direction.

后来我又讲了更重要的知识点,你可以随意选取另外一个坐标系,不再是传统的 x 和 y 方向,而是倾斜过的方向

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Eager as I had once been to go into politics, as I look at these things and saw everything taking any course at all with no direction or management, I ended up feeling dizzy.

我当初涉入政治的热切，对比于我所见的这些事,及所有的事,都毫无方向及管理可言，我最后是被搞胡涂了。

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If you want to write it as a vector equation, you want to write it as v square over r minus-- I want to say that it's pointing in the direction toward the center.

如果要写出矢量方程,就应该写成 -v^2 / r,也就是说,方向就向圆心

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So, what this means is that when we're looking at an actual wave function, we're treating it as a wave, right, so waves can have both magnitude, but they can also have a direction, so they can be either positive or negative.

这意味着,当我们看一个波函数时,我们把它看做一个波，波不仅有幅值，还有方向，所以它们可正可负，如果。

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