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So it's a bit less negative than saying you absolutely don't want to do it.

所以，相比绝不会做某事的说法，这个句型包含的否定意味更少。

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Another way to say that it's going to be less, so you don't get confused with that the fact this is in the numerator here, there is that negative sign so it's less energy but it's a bigger negative number that gives us that less energy there.

另一个方式去说它将会变得很低实用，你们不用在这里的计算器的事实感到迷惑,这里有一个负号实用，它是更少的能量,但它是一个更大的数字,这里了它给了我们更少的能量。

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It's not even a zero-- or rather if I have less, you'll have less- that's a negative sum game-- or a zero sum game-- if I have more, you'll have less- it's a fixed pie.

甚至不是一个零…,或者我更少，你也会更少，那也是负和游戏-,或零和游戏，我更多，你就会更少-,饼就那么大。

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In that year, we were early on in terms of diversifying the portfolio -we'd only been working on that program for two years -and even so,the negative return was less than 1%, so it was a modest negative return.

在那一年,我们还处于投资组合多元化的初期,刚刚开始2年,即便如此,股灾时我们的亏损小于1%,这只是一个轻微的亏损

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Wrev So minus w reversible, 1 p2 is less than p1, so p2 over p1 is less than one, log of something less than 1 is negative times negative.

那么，而p2小于p1，p2/p1小于，取对数后是负数,负负得正。

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If n is greater than zero, I decided I would say, "You picked a positive number, backslash n," so put the cursor on the next line, else if n was not less than zero, I say, "You picked a negative number, backslash n."

如果n比0大，我就决定来说：,“你选择了一个整数，反斜杠n“，所以你把光标,放在下一行，另外如果n不小于0，我说：,“你选择一个负数，反斜杠n“

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So a will be negative and w, in fact, will be less than mg.

那么 a 就会变负,w 事实上就会比 mg 小

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Neither it is a negative sum game-- it's not that my happiness takes away from other people's happiness which will be a negative sum game: if I have more, you'll necessarily have less.

也不是负和游戏-,我的快乐不是从别人那里夺来,那将是负和游戏：,我有更多，你一定更少。

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So all that's left is negative T dS is less than zero.

只剩下TdS小于零。

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So if you had a high temperature, this a small compared to b. If you're negative which means that dT/dp at constant H is less than zero.

高于反转温度，这一项相比于b很小,意味着H恒定时,偏T偏p小于零。

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