If I did refuse to help, my supervisor might say bad things about me behind my back.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Imagine waking up every morning and saying to yourself: "I refuse to accept the law of gravity.

想象每天早上醒来后对自己说：,“我拒绝接受万有引力定律。

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Deny thy father and refuse they name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn, my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet." She's a Capulet.

否认你的父亲，抛弃你的姓名吧，也许你不愿意这样做，只要你宣誓做我的爱人，我也不愿再姓凯普莱特了，她姓凯普莱特。

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"And if we refuse to deal with these issues today, then I guarantee you that they will be an albatross around our efforts [a big obstacle to combat terrorism in the future. The president spoke in the National Archives, which houses the nation's founding documents.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

So, she would refuse to take part in it; it doesn't sound right to her-- I'll trust in prayer and other things.

所以她可能就不会买保险,这对她来说是不道德的,她宁愿相信祈祷之类的事情

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Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Well, apparently Richard in real life did not refuse to make those changes. And imagine, in a book that then undergoes this publishing history that I have described, this is kind of a symbolic scene.

很明显，现实生活中的理查,并没有拒绝那些修改,想像一下，经历上述出版过程的一本书，这是象征性的场景。

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