Setting targets can and does have unforeseen negative consequences.

设定目标可能而且确实会产生不可预见的负面后果。

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This lawyer had fallen victim to the "don'ts" syndrome—a form of negative goal setting.

这位律师成了“不要”综合征的受害者，这是一种消极的目标设定形式。

youdao

But that all sounds pretty negative and I don't mean it to be. I was just setting the background.

但是所有的呼声相当的负面，而我没有那个意思，我只是设置了这个背景。

youdao

However, he does say that red can be a negative color, depending on the setting.

CNN: Wearing red may boost your sex appeal

The rate is negative even in the present low inflation setting.

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It does no good whatsoever to ban takeaway food from schools and serve the children only food that they find disgusting and tell them that it's healthy - you're setting them up to believe that "healthy" is automatically a negative word, and to reject anything "healthy" in the future!

BBC: South East: Politics on the menu