The United States also continued in the nineteen twenties to refuse to recognize the communist government in Moscow.

VOA: special.2011.02.03

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。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Will you truly refuse to accept the law of gravity?

你真得能拒绝接受万有引力定律吗？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Rosa Parks was not the first black person to refuse to give up a seat on the bus for a white person.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

We refuse to abide by the Geneva Conventions.

我们拒绝接受日内瓦公约。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Southern supporters were afraid that if a statehood bill for California was passed first, then northerners would refuse to pass the other parts of the compromise.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

The Athenians refuse to tolerate Socrates because they know he is not harmless, that he poses a challenge, a fundamental challenge to their way of life and all that they hold to be noble and worthwhile.

雅典人拒绝容忍苏格拉底,因为他们明白他并非无害，他公然挑衅，社会本质的生活方式,及他们视为崇高及值得的观念。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Also,members could refuse to accept the court's right to try crimes of aggression.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

They have refuse to pay the cost that maintain the health care system, and so in countries like Britain and Canada, t find the same availability of health care like that in the United States.

政府拒绝为民众买单,维持医疗福利，所以在英国和加拿大这样的国家，你找不到，you，don’,同样方便的医疗,可以与美国媲美的。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

A free-rider might refuse to donate money but still enjoys watching the programs.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Consider the following remarkable proposal at 468c, "and I add to the laws of war," Socrates writes, "that as long as they, the guardians, are on campaign, no one whom he wants to kiss should be permitted to refuse.

思考一下以下,出现在，468c，的了不起建议，苏格拉底提到：，“我要添加到战争法则的，是只要守护者们，继续作战，没有他们想吻的人,应被允许拒绝要求。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The women's group immediately called for all blacks in the city to refuse to ride on city buses on the day of Missus Parks's trial, Monday,December fifth.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

These are some of its best known words: Give me your tired,your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

You give someone the cold shoulder when you refuse to speak to them.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

He demanded that first, the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state, something they refuse to do.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

South Korean officials in Seoul refuse to confirm or deny the reports.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

But in case it does not work out and they refuse to lay down their arms and insist to continue their struggle for whatever reason,then the government is keeping the military option open,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.27

Venezuelan President Chavez threatened to refuse to sign the declaration to protest Cuba's absence from the hemispheric gathering, and to protest the document's failure - as it is now reportedly written - to demand an end to the U.S.embargo of the island.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

A newly released history of 20th Century Russia, written by a team of 45 scholars and edited by historian Andrei Zubov, includes a statement that much of the country's recent past is painfully difficult to study, which is why many refuse to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"If we refuse to take into account the full costs of our fossil fuel addiction - if we don't factor in the environmental costs and the national security costs and the true economic costs - we will have missed our best chance to seize a clean energy future."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

"If senators refuse to debate about a profound crisis affecting every single citizen, the nation must ask 'What do you fear?' ,'And whose voice do you speak and whose interest do you vote?" Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky disagreed, saying the bill will make soaring health care costs go even higher, and place a greater burden on average Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

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