affirmative pregnant. A positive statement that ambiguously implies a negative; a statement that does not explicitly deny a charge, but instead answers an unasked question and thereby implies culpability, as when a person says “I returned your car yesterday” to the charge “You stole my car!” Cf. NEGATIVE PREGNANT.
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affirmative pregnant 蕴含否定之肯定 普通法诉讼中，一种肯定性的主张或陈述，但其中暗含某些有利于对方当事人的否定。
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negative pregnant. A denial implying its affirmative opposite by seeming to deny only a qualification of the allegation and not the allegation itself. • An example is the statement, “I didn’t steal the money last Tuesday,” the implication being that the theft might have happened on another day. — Also termed negative pregnant with an