You cannot ask a non-smoker to give up cigarettes.

你不可能让一个压根不吸烟的人去戒烟。

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But it cannot ask the central bank to tide it over.

但是国家不能要求央行帮助其摆脱困境。

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I cannot ask for more from my parents, her family or from her.

我再不能向我的家人，她的家人和她，开口要什么了。

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Nothing is free. So,the reason I make that point is, you cannot ask local elected officials to raise teacher salaries and cut taxes and balance the budget and increase roads.

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There is something that you really have to ask, something that cannot wait.

有什么非问不可的问题，无法等待。

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And you ask about India's relationship to China India cannot afford to alienate China China is far too powerful and a significant dynamic a country, so whether the United States think of them as adversary or not India does not think so.

你还问到中印的关系,印度不能疏离中国,因为中国非常强大，经济发展,非常迅速，所以不论美国,有没有把中国视为敌人,印度都不会与中国敌对。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

It includes a section on questions teams cannot ask prospective draft picks and free agents.

NPR: 'I'm Gay': NBA Player Jason Collins Breaks Barrier

Berlin says it cannot ask its taxpayers to bail out Cyprus if that involves protecting wealthy Russians.

BBC: Cyprus bank crisis: Mounting EU pressure

Plenty of other countries agree that the EU cannot ask for austerity on the one hand, whilst not applying the same demands to itself.

BBC: Britain's fight over EU budget as Brussels seeks rise