However, when they are asked to walk into an obstacle or off the end of a table, for example, the robots politely decline to do so.

然而，如果命令他们走入障碍物或者走向桌子的边缘时，机器人会礼貌地拒绝。

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The goal is to extend product life so that sales and profits do not decline.

这样做的目的是延长产品的寿命，使销售额和利润不会下降。

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Technological change may well reinforce that shift: the skills that complement computers, from management knowhow to creativity, do not necessarily decline with age.

技术变革很可能促进这种转变：作为补充计算机的技能，从管理技能到创造力，不一定会随着时代的进步而衰败。

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Or "Yes, actually I do mind" if you want to decline a permission.

或者当你拒绝一种请求时，你就会说“是的，实际上我会介意。”

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The bad news is that thousands more could be starting similar organizations and they even want to but they decline to do it.

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Should the President decline to do so, he risks not only further embroiling himself in an issue that has already proved politically explosive for him.

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Her own solution to the Drumcree crisis seems to be that the residents' group should offer to let the Portadown Orange Lodge march down the Garvaghy Road, and that the Lodge should then decline to do so.

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