You ask someone for a favour and they say no.

你向别人提出请求，却被say no。

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He was a local boy, whose father had worked for a timber company, and lumber interests never had to ask a favour twice.

他是当地人，他父亲曾为一家木材公司打工，所以木材的利益对他来讲是当仁不让的。

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And you fall in love for three years, for you to change your pay, break up ask you a favour, you said this is the last time is full of affection debt owed before heart aches.

和你谈恋爱三年，为你改变付出，分手了求你帮个忙，你却说这是最后一次全是以前欠的情债心好疼。

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He added that if Mr Osborne had decided that the UK should contribute "a fraction more" he would have had to ask for parliamentary approval, predicting that the government would have had difficulty persuading MPs to vote in favour of such a move.

BBC: Osborne faces IMF funding backlash from MPs