Negative emotions focus our awareness.

负面情绪会让我们集中意识。

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This focus on beauty and desirability "effectively destroys any awareness and action that might help to change that climate."

这种对美和欲望的关注“实际上破坏了任何可能有助于改变这种风气的意识和行动”。

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Instead of narrowing our focus like negative emotions do, positive emotions affect our brains in ways that increase our awareness, attention and memory.

积极的情绪会通过提升我们的意识、注意力和记忆力等方式来影响我们的大脑，而不是像消极情绪那样限制我们的注意力。

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And because of a persistent focus on awareness, the global rate of new infections and deaths is declining.

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Women with metastatic cancer, which has spread beyond the breast and is more likely to be fatal, sometimes feel left out when the focus of awareness is on curable, small tumors, says Christopher Friese, an oncology nurse and assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing.

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Most of the thousands of patient advocacy groups in the U.S. still focus on raising awareness or begging for more federal money.

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