In fact, their response was a refusal.

实际上，他们的答复是一种拒绝。

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How passion, focus, and a refusal to fail can change the world.

该是怎样的热情，专注以及拒绝失败的决心才能够改变这个世界。

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The student union has called for a rent strike(= a refusal to pay rent as a protest).

学生会呼吁拒缴房租.

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"A decision that I consider to be not only be unwise, but in fact based on a refusal to face the fact that what we are involved with here is a war with people who follow a religiously-based ideology that calls on them to kill us,and to return instead to the mindset that prevailed before September 11,2001,".

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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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And we pay a very high price for this inability, for this refusal to accept the fact that it is part of human nature that is constrained, that is there no matter what.

我们为这种无能付出高昂代价，为拒绝接受,本性受约束，生而有之的事实，付出高昂代价。

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They do so because of a refusal by innovators to leave a bad idea alone.

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This usually means a refusal to supply a document or a piece of information on demand.

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"There's been no assertion of executive privilege, just a refusal to answer, " Lieberman said.

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