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affirmatively

/uh-fur-muh-tiv/US // əˈfɜr mə tɪv //UK // (əˈfɜːmətɪv) //

肯定的是,肯定地,肯定的,肯定

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : affirming or assenting; asserting the truth, validity, or fact of something.
    • : expressing agreement or consent; assenting: an affirmative reply.
    • : positive; not negative.
    • : Logic. noting a proposition in which a property of a subject is affirmed, as “All men are happy.”
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something that affirms or asserts; a positive statement or proposition; affirmation.
    • : a reply indicating assent, as Yes or I do.
    • : a manner or mode that indicates assent: a reply in the affirmative.
    • : the side, as in a debate, that affirms or defends a statement that the opposite side denies or attacks: to speak for the affirmative.
interj.感叹词 interjection
  1. 1
    • : : “Is this the right way to Lake George?” “Affirmative.”

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Examples

  • Arguments over the Fairness Doctrine often serve as proxy debates for larger issues, including the legitimacy of government’s affirmative duty to protect positive freedoms.

  • There’s no law that protected us, or affirmative action, that doesn’t even exist, right, in Germany.

  • And, while it does require that individuals give affirmative express consent before sensitive data can be processed or transferred to a third party, the definition is less broad than what’s in COPRA.

  • Steps have been taken in recent decades to begin addressing this legacy in earnest, from anti-discrimination laws to affirmative action efforts.

  • If this limited deal does pass, it’s likely they’ll abruptly pivot to an affirmative economic message, suddenly extolling all they’re doing for the recovery.

  • Some three dozen had answered affirmatively to both and were deemed “fever with travel” jobs.

  • And, until Congress acts affirmatively, Cole said the DOJ will be dealing with these issues as they come, on a case-by-case basis.

  • All committee meetings would be open unless the committee affirmatively voted to close it.

  • When Guy answered affirmatively, the stranger brought Guy to his apartment to strum some tunes for his wife.

  • “Teller B responded affirmatively in Spanish,” the criminal complaint reports.

  • The bailiff nodded affirmatively, crossed the drawbridge and entered the donjon.

  • M. Regnard says affirmatively, that the grey squirrels of Lapland are the same animals as the French squirrels.

  • "That caballero and the persons of his suite," answered the old chief, affirmatively nodding his head.

  • Her husband evidently had no difficulty in following her train of thought, for he nodded once more, affirmatively.

  • Finally she enquired whether he knew how a will should be drawn up, and that, too, he answered affirmatively.

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