The path leads in a negative direction towards failure.

这条路的方向是反的，会走向失败。

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If you're headed in a negative direction, getting back on track may seem hopelessly out of reach.

如果你在向一个消极的方向前进，看起来无望返回正常轨道。

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However, you still lose the intrinsic value of option if the stock price moves to the negative direction.

然而，你还失去了内在价值，如果股票期权的价格动向负方向。

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It says, if you pull it to the right, so that x is positive, the spring will exert a force which is in the negative direction; that's why you have a minus sign.

就是说,如果你向右拉,x 取正值,弹簧产生的力方向为负,这就是这里用负号的原因

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Delta v is positive in this direction here, the work is negative. So work on the system is positive. Work done by the system is negative.

功是负的，总而言之,外界对系统做功的符号为正。

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So, what this means is that when we're looking at an actual wave function, we're treating it as a wave, right, so waves can have both magnitude, but they can also have a direction, so they can be either positive or negative.

这意味着,当我们看一个波函数时,我们把它看做一个波，波不仅有幅值，还有方向，所以它们可正可负，如果。

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However, given the utter trendlessness of the economy since emerging from the Great Recession, it is important to be alert to signs of a new direction especially when that new direction could have distinctly negative consequences.

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The universe also contains information coded with the direction, speed and positive or negative charges of subatomic particles.

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It is, for example, equipped with a rear-wheel steering system (Precision All-Wheel Steer) that allows the rear wheels to be pointed, independently, up to 2 degrees of toe-angle adjustment in either direction (in or out, negative or positive), for 4 degrees of articulation.

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