Negative

(noun.) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed.

(noun.) a reply of denial; 'he answered in the negative'.

(adj.) expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial .

(adj.) having a negative charge; 'electrons are negative' .

(adj.) having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant; 'ran a negative campaign'; 'delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life' .

(adj.) characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features; 'a negative outlook on life'; 'a colorless negative personality'; 'a negative evaluation'; 'a negative reaction to an advertising campaign' .

(adj.) less than zero; 'a negative number' .

(adj.) reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive; 'negative interest rates' .

(adj.) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition; 'the HIV test was negative' .

录入:厄普顿

• I asked first if Sir Percival was at the Park, and receiving a reply in the negative, inquired next when he had left it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The result is a permanent image--a negative. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• To obtain a true photograph, the negative is placed on a piece of sensitive photographic paper, or paper coated with a silver salt in the same manner as the plate and films. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The reply was in the negative. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• In other words, the very faults that we noted in the negative, from a picture point of view, automatically right themselves. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Moore, chary of words, replied by a negative movement and murmur. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The negative or iron plate (Fig. 5) has the familiar flat-pocket construction. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• To which inquiry Mr. Pickwick returned a most decided negative. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He needs to be made conscious of consequences as a justification of the positive or negative value of certain objects. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Double-print is used where the surface is covered with halftone screen, either the line or halftone negative is printed on the metal, the other is superimposed on it. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The result is that the three negatives, instead of each being a true unit, ready for combination with the others, is really only a basis for further work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This plate of heavy glass containing the several negatives is placed with the sensitized metal in a printing frame. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In not one of all my clever replies, my delicate negatives, is there any allusion to making a sacrifice. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Combination plates are made by combining the halftone and line negatives together and making one complete print on the metal. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Fox Talbot makes Photo Prints from Negatives. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In both cases, negatives are made of both the halftone and fine copies. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The pictures produced by the collodion process are negatives, which serve admirably for transferring positive pictures on to sensitive paper. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• He qualified these two negatives, as if he were not absolutely in either service, but was almost in both. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• From these negatives, when developed, positive prints were made, which were later mounted on a modified form of Zoetrope and projected upon a screen. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The negatives so obtained are developed in the regular way, and the positive prints subsequently made from them are used for reproduction. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• One of the gentlemen, Mr. Eshton, observing me, seemed to propose that I should be asked to join them; but Lady Ingram instantly negatived the notion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• A proposal for recommitting this resolution was negatived by 240 votes to 133. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Mistress Affery negatived each with a shake of her head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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