Since the cost of digital distribution is almost zero, the thinking goes, cinemas ought to gamble on more obscure products.

因为数码传播的成本几乎是零，所以影院应该往更多不引人注意的产品上下赌注的想法就可以接受。

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The Power of Positive Thinking is zero.

正面思想的作用力是零。

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The people I watched hurrying to work past the construction site at Ground Zero early yesterday morning were surely not thinking about buildings collapsing as a result of terrorist attack.

我观察到，昨天清晨人们匆匆走过归零地(译注：Ground Zero，即世贸遗址)建筑工地时，那些人肯定不再想到这些建筑物的倒塌是由恐怖袭击造成的。

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This is zero-sum thinking at its most base.

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Nor is corporate management immune to zero-sum thinking.

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While the mandates for corn ethanol have been met, I said quite explicitly from the start that the cellulosic ethanol mandates were wishful thinking, and that there was practically zero chance of meeting the targets.

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