The main drivers of strategic default are the scale of negative equity, and moral and social considerations.

策略性违约的主要动因是房屋负资产的规模，以及道德和社会考虑。

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“On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d say we were negative during the first half of the year, ” he said. “Now, we’re at 0.5 or 1 — not huge, but better, and definitely stronger than in the Americas and Europe.”

“如果从1至10分来衡量，我会说上半年我们是负数，”他说，“现在，我们在0.5或1的位置——不多，但好转了，而且肯定比美国和欧洲要强。”

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Respondents were asked how they would rate their lives on a scale from zero (worst possible) to 10 (best possible), as well as answering a series of questions on positive or negative emotions.

受访者被问到他们将如何给自己的生活评分：量表从0分(可能最糟糕的生活)到10分(可能最美好的生活)；同时还需要回答一系列关于积极或消极情绪的问题。

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They're not bad, bad, they're not nightmares, but most dreams are from a scale of one to ten with five and a half in the middle they're on the negative side.

说它们不好，并不是说它们是噩梦，如果用1到10来评分,5。5为中间分值,大部份梦都是在5。5分以下。

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On the lower end of the scale are negative words such as mad, hate, no, boo, smoke and jail, as well as a colorful and thorough assortment of expletives.

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In last year's fight for the Democratic nomination to be governor of California, the candidate who went negative lost on a grand scale.

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"Today's black dolls have evolved from negative caricatures to play-scale representations of haute couture fashion models and other positive images of babies, toddlers and adult black people, " says Garrett.

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