And I am able to vary the voltage on the plates making this for argument's sake negative and this for argument's sake positive.

我可以改变两个板子上的电压,为了论证，这个是负电,这个是正电。

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Now that ignorance that I'm describing, what Wordsworth called "wise passiveness", ; what Keats described as "negative capability"; the great argument for it is very simple.

我所谈到的这种无知，华兹华斯笔下的，被动的聪悟，济慈描述的，自我否定力;,这背后的道理一点也不复杂。

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