| 词汇 | example_english_double-negative |
| 释义 | Examples of double negativeThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. First, as regards donations, the boundary is set very inelegantly in a doublenegative of, "not less than £5,000". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In sum, the efficacy of ' anti-economic ' deployments of money as ' oppositional ideology ' is rendered here as a doublenegative. Actually, the doublenegative has a long history in the spoken language. In this example, the parent corrects both of the child's errors - the doublenegative and the incorrect agreement. Reflections on a doublenegative : misarticulation and inconsistency. It contains a doublenegative which produced a nonsensical result. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We wanted to get rid of the doublenegative, but we were not party to the removal of the whole paragraph. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The use of the doublenegative lends itself to confusion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sorry about the doublenegative but the enforcement is not conditional on there not being a dispute. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He used a doublenegative, but what he meant is pretty clear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is purely drafting and avoids a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why on earth is it necessary to use a doublenegative to define what is operational? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The amendment proposed removes the doublenegative and states that it shall be, "discharged only through the joint committee". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is the old way of using a doublenegative for a positive affirmative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a doublenegative, so to speak. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We would not be incorporating something which expressly by its terms provides that acts done under it shall not be applicable to us—a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A doublenegative can also be a statement of fact. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am perfectly certain that any teacher would tell you that it is clearer and better if you do not use a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We would be much happier if the doublenegative were removed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In paragraph 2 of the schedule we find a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is the effect of the doublenegative? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the questions involved a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A doublenegative is bad enough, but a treble negative—two "nots"and a"no"—makes it extremely difficult of comprehension. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is only because a doublenegative taxes people's brains in finding out what the affirmative is. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was effectively a doublenegative, making illegal something that was already illegal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think therefore that, syntactically, it can be said that the two words cancel each other out in creating a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, in effect, by the use of the word "except" twice, the amendment gives rise to a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the returns are reduced and the costs are increased, there will be a doublenegative impact on the net return to savers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that he ought to have included a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The draftsmen overlooked the doublenegative created by the word "except ". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is the virtue of a doublenegative? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, using the word "may"with the word"effeiring" is almost a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The second paragraph entails proving a doublenegative, and to try to prove a doublenegative is something that strikes a chill into the heart. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We seem to have gone in draftsmanship from doublenegative to triple negative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It proceeds on the principle of a doublenegative, which is always very difficult to interpret. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not a doublenegative, but a double positive and it could be improved on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This particular case is the other way round; it is a kind of doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The doublenegative is not in my draft. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The wording of this constitutes a curious doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That seems to me to be a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This clause includes a doublenegative and the word "unless", and it really needs a very great deal of construing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That appears to me to be something of a doublenegative but, again, draftsmanship is not one of my strong points. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, we have here a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is the reason for this slightly elastic phrase, whether one takes it in the positive or doublenegative form. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, we have this confusion of the doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although it is an improvement to remove a doublenegative, it does not change the meaning very much. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Clause 256 contains what is in effect a doublenegative; namely, "exceptions from the prohibition". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is not a very elegant phrase but it states, in the shape of a doublenegative, the complicated legal situation we face. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why must we have this doublenegative? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Wending our way through the doublenegative, we discover that the effect is that standing orders must prevent the appointment of any committee with functions not relating to devolved matters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why should we have this doublenegative? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was misled by a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is a very clear doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is also a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is very nearly a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We were arguing about the doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The doublenegative is clearly deliberate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems extraordinary that we continue to have to repeat the provision and place specific duties in statute—which is a double positive, not a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, subsection (3) contains a doublenegative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The doublenegative parameters are a result of low-frequency resonances. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This extraordinary material was realized on paper with simultaneous negative values for ", and,", and could therefore be termed a doublenegative material. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Doublenegative elimination is a theorem of classical logic, but not of weaker logics such as intuitionistic logic and minimal logic. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Such materials are sometimes called doublenegative materials. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The doublenegative (disproving the null hypothesis) of the method is confusing, but using a counter-example to disprove is standard mathematical practice. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These cells are referred to as doublenegative. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This is commonly referred to as the doublenegative, and is either negative or emphatically negative, never positive. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Positive feedback occurs when a gene activates itself directly or indirectly via a doublenegative feedback loop. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In propositional logic, doublenegative elimination (also called double negation elimination, double negative introduction, double negation introduction, or simply double negation) are two valid rules of replacement. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This is called a doublenegative. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Double negatives and the eighteenth century. I hate these double negatives: they sound "phoney" to me, and in this particular case they always have done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I always prefer to avoid double negatives where possible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It contains an awful lot of double negatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That leads to double negatives which we always try to avoid. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We need to replace the long sentences, the verbiage and the countless double negatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The report went out with a covering letter, in which one must be aware of the double negatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a complicated matter and it is difficult to explain it without the use of double negatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am one of those who dislike double negatives and that was the way in which it was drawn. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely it is very difficult for an ordinary man to follow the implications of all these double negatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps the way in which he is expressing himself—using double negatives—is almost making him sound disingenuous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The regulations are incomprehensible and it is difficult or impossible to find one's way through the negatives and double negatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But for all that, and because of the arcane use of double negatives, it may not be easy to follow and may be flawed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are copiously laced with double negatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I get so confused with double negatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Double negatives nearly always resolve to a positive meaning even in colloquial speech, while triple negatives resolve to a negative meaning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The new lyrics emphasised other characteristics of uneducated speech such as double negatives, mispronunciations and malapropisms. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In some languages, double negatives cancel one another and produce an affirmative sense; in other languages, doubled negatives intensify the negation. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Similar double negatives are found on other runic inscriptions. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The poem is complex, with numerous geographic references and elaborate litotic double negatives in a list-like manner. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It went from meaning simple to using the idea of understatement which involves double negatives. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They get rid of grammatically nonstandard features such as double negatives, the word ai nt and past tense forms such as writ for wrote and come for came. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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