You can’t prove a negative nor recreate history to show what might have been.

没人能用反证法或者重造历史来说服大众——说明某事也许会发生。

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Not believing in God is easy—you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do.

不相信上帝是容易的——因为你无法证伪，所以无需做什么。

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After the collapse of the Spanish property market left many expats living in negative equity, the decline in UK savings interest rates and pension payments may prove a blow too far.

西班牙房地产市场崩溃之后，很多外国人生活中出现负资产，英国存款利率及退休金的下跌可能会使市场受到更长远的打击。

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What is more, to refute it Iraq seems to be obliged to prove a negative, which, to a layman, seems a little tricky.

ECONOMIST: Assessing the evidence against Saddam Hussein

His approach was harder to pull off: raise the bar, create a zone of privacy, don't fall into the trap of trying to prove a negative.

CNN: 'I've made mistakes...'

In years past Turkey's spotty democracy was often cited to prove a negative: the Turkish case (along with Indonesia's and Malaysia's, also with reservations) showed that Islam did not pose an insuperable barrier to multiparty democracy.

ECONOMIST: The Turkish model