Nothing but surrender. Lee sent a note to General Grant asking to meet with him to discuss surrender terms.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

You could tell your colleague instead of asking him directly which might be a little inappropriate,

如果不想过于直接地问他，因为这可能有点不合适，你可以这样问你的同事，

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I'm asking you if somebody wrote apparently Shakespeare's plays for him; it's one of the rumors, right?

我想问你,有没有人替写莎士比亚写剧本,这只是个传闻,对吧

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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

Before taking questions from tribal leaders, the president signed a memorandum asking every cabinet agency to give him a detailed plan to improve the government's relations with American Indians.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05