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

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Vertically means that every class connected to the next class is connected to every class throughout the semester around a spiral.

纵向意味着每一节课都和下一节课有关系,和整个学期内的每一节课都有关系，呈一个螺旋状。

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It's an opportunity to deal with those perhaps in a more constructive way, than letting the feeling spiral.

也许可以借这个机会用更有建设性,的方法应对，而不是使负面情绪恶化。

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But the threat of terrorism, according to former Yemeni prime minister Abdul Karim al-Iryani, is equally part of the downward economic spiral causing anger on the streets of Sana'a.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

It's the positive emotion that can take us out from this downward spiral to this upward spiral.

积极情绪,能把我们带离这个下行螺旋进入这个上行螺旋。

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If you stop and be aware of your breath, it would reduce the likelihood of going to have the spiral feeling like that. -Thank you.

如果停下来，留意呼吸，就能避免有不断恶化,感觉的可能性，谢谢你。

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Everything is interconnected on the higher level on a spiral-- in other words will lead to deep understanding and hopefully assimilation of the material.

所有内容在一个更高的水平上呈螺旋状互相联系-,换言之，会带来深刻的理解和我所希望的对材料的吸收。

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And the challenge is to combine "the permission to be human" to experience the emotion to go through the motion and yet not to enter the downward spiral where six months later, after small incident, I'm still in that rot.

困难在于将之与准许为人相结合“,去体会情绪，实现转移,但不会进入下行螺旋，在发生小小意外六个月后，仍心情低落。

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It goes out to the outside world, interacts,gets its hand and mind dirty, does work outside and then applies its work and learns from "the dirty experiences" and brings it back to the lab and so on and so on in an upward spiral.

而是走到外面的世界，与外界互动，接触那些“肮脏“事物，在外面工作，并吸取经验,从“肮脏经验“中学习“,将得到的经验带回实验室,诸如此类，就像一个上升的螺旋。

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Remember I talk those of you who were here the first time: this course is built like a spiral Everything is intra-connected, what I talked about in the first class is connected to what I'm going to talk about today, is going to be connected to lecture 19.

记得一开始我就跟你们说过：,这课程就像个螺旋,内部的一切都是相关的，第一节课讲到的内容,与今天要谈的课题有关，也和第19课有关。

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