"If we go into a protectionist downward spiral, we are lost,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

And very often what that does-- a positive emotion can take us out of this downward spiral and create an upward spiral.

很经常的是-,积极情绪把我们带出下行螺旋,形成一个上行螺旋。

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It's the positive emotion that can take us out from this downward spiral to this upward spiral.

积极情绪,能把我们带离这个下行螺旋进入这个上行螺旋。

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But the threat of terrorism, according to former Yemeni prime minister Abdul Karim al-Iryani, is equally part of the downward economic spiral causing anger on the streets of Sana'a.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

When Bush 41 talked about the economy, that was the beginning of the downward spiral.

老布什谈论经济的时候，是经济衰退的开始。

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And what we know is that very often we enter a downward spiral, a vicious cycle when we go into this narrow and constrict mode.

我们知道经常会进入下行螺旋，一个恶性循环，当我们进入狭窄收紧的模式。

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And the challenge is to combine "the permission to be human" to experience the emotion to go through the motion and yet not to enter the downward spiral where six months later, after small incident, I'm still in that rot.

困难在于将之与准许为人相结合“,去体会情绪，实现转移,但不会进入下行螺旋，在发生小小意外六个月后，仍心情低落。

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