Haig was desperately eager for an affirmative answer.

黑格极渴望得到一个肯定的回答。

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We are expecting an affirmative answer.

我们盼望得到肯定的答复。

youdao

When I asked my friend, it is definitely so, and she gave me the affirmative answer.

问朋友，的确是的。她给我的是肯定的答案。

youdao

An affirmative answer would violate the rule against the President's creating law unilaterally.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

An affirmative answer will bring comfort to exobiologists a group of people whose subject is, at the moment, based on hope rather than reality.

ECONOMIST: Space exploration

As for whether or not the administration will try to convince the Palestinians to recognize the Jewish state, Crowley could not bring himself to give a simple affirmative answer.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama and the US-Israel alliance