They had negative views of effort, believing that having to work hard was a sign of low ability.

他们对努力持否定态度，认为努力学习是能力低下的表现。

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Eliminating negative habits is hard because you associated a lot of pleasure to these habits in the past.

摒弃掉消极的习惯是很难的，因为你在过去的许多乐趣都跟这些有关。

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The more positive stuff you can do, it does balance out the negative, even though it's really hard to put that into your schedule.

即使在你的日常工作生活里很难去做这些具有积极意义的事情，但这些事你做的越多就越能使自己克服负面的影响。

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In developed economies a hard landing implies negative growth, but not in China, where growth has averaged 9% over the past two decades.

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Both last Friday and yesterday, stocks have rallied in the morning but pulled back hard to finished in negative territory.

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While the ISM Manufacturing Index has been expanding for seventeen straight months now, the gain in December plus the impressive numbers from the New Orders and Inventories components made it hard to be overly negative on the outlook for the economy.

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