If a friend keeps asking you to do something you do not want to do, you might ask him to leave you alone or "stop bugging me."

VOA: special.2009.06.28

One thing I do ask you: If you are not doing it, if you don't participate, simply just keep quiet.

我对你们的一个要求是：,如果你不做，不参与的同学，请保持安静。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The first step to insight is to ask questions like why do things fall down and not up?

起初的洞察力是问问题,为什么物体坠地而不是上升？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Believe me,Giovanni, I did not ask him to do this to you.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

Ask not what you can do for your country, etc.

不要问你能为你的国家做些什么这样的问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And in 1961, during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, John Kennedy urged people to take an active part in the future: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Now we can ask, not what did you do, but what should you do?

我们不讨论你做了些什么,而讨论你应该怎么做

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And we think, having pieced it together, that it was this guy Madni, but we do not know, so the piece of litigation that we are bringing is to ask the government to tell us who it was,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.28