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It can attach itself to a church or a class, or it may work in a merely negative sense, against something or other and without the need for any positive object of loyalty.

这情感可以依附于一座教堂，一个班级，或者仅仅表现在消极的一面，反对着这些那些，不需要一个积极的具体事物来寄托忠诚。

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A good teacher is an entertainer and I mean that in a positive sense, not a negative sense.

我喜欢搞笑的老师——不是那种负面的让人觉得搞笑，而是积极意义上的知道如何活跃气氛的那种。

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But, can you see that as you get really close together the negative electronic cloud surrounding the two ions start to sense one another.

然后当你真的让它们,离得很近时,这两个离子周围的负电子云能感应到对方。

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And also in a very sort of pragmatic sense, in a negative way, it's tax-deductible.

同时，从实用的角度来讲，或是从一个消极的角度，这种捐款是免税的。

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Negative pressure doesn't make any sense, right?

负的压强没有意义？

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Right until the last, albeit in a negative sense, Mr Eisner has dominated Disney.

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Even now, however, it seems safe to say that two initiatives qualify, one in the negative sense, the other in a positive one.

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If that's the path the Palestinians are going to go along, I personally believe it has to be a decision that's taken in a positive sense, rather than a negative sense, not just because the two state solution is no longer working, but because this is something that Palestinians inherently want.

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