Saying yes to one thing means saying no to another.

答应一件事意味着你要拒绝另一件事情。

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When you're saying yes to all of these things you “need” to be doing what or who are you saying no to?

当你对所有这些你“需要”做的事说是的时候你对谁或是什么说不是呢？

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When you're saying yes to all of these things you "need" to be doing what or who are you saying no to?

当你对所有这些你“需要”做的事说是的时候你对谁或是什么说不是呢？

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The answer that Yeats is giving here is different from saying either "yes" or "no" to that question.

叶芝此处给的答案,既不肯定也不否定。

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It's usually best to respond in a complete sentence rather than saying yes or no which can be ambiguous.

一般来说，回答最好是完整的句子，而不是简单的模棱两可的“是”或“不是”。

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While Reagan called for cuts in waste, fraud, and abuse of welfare programs, he was working with a Democratic House, and entitlement programs have only grown and proliferated in the past thirty years, with both parties saying yes to low taxes without saying no to new spending.

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When some sort of carbon tax is introduced to reduce carbon emissions, support for climate change policies goes from the vast majority saying yes, to the vast majority saying no.

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Mr. Loughner responded to a series of mostly yes and no questions from Judge Burns saying he understood the charges against him and understood that by pleading guilty to them he was giving up his right to trial.

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