你是告诉我你拒绝了？

Am I to understand that you refuse?

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如果你说“不”，即使是出于礼貌，你也可能会抑制（其他人）进一步的想法，不仅是那个记者的想法，还有那些听说你拒绝了这一想法的人的想法。

If you say no, even politely, you risk inhibiting further ideas, not just from that reporter, but from others who heard that you turned down the idea.

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你拒绝了吗？

Which you refused?

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You could see the kind of grim refusal to apologize for "boughten friendship," as a kind of, well, as a kind of apology for his own popular success.

你可以看到他无情地拒绝了,为“买来的友谊“道歉“,就像为他自己当红的成功,道歉一样。

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She says, just stay with me and I--you will live forever and all will be well and he says, well, you're a very beautiful girl and I enjoy you a lot, but I got to go back to Ithaca.

女神说,留下来,我赐你长生不老,终生美好,但奥德修斯拒绝了,虽然您的魅力让我倾心,但我不得不返回伊萨卡岛

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