Perhaps you are worried saying no means closing doors. For example, one of my clients’ wife was asked to transfer to another department in her company.

或许你认为说不意味着拒而不纳，例如，我的一个客户的妻子被调到她公司的另一个部门，但她喜欢她原来的团队，并不想调职。

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'I like them and my wife is a wonderful cook but I have to admit there are only so many ways you can cook them, so I reckon we'll give them away to neighbours.

我喜欢这些蔬菜，我的妻子是位神厨，可是，我不得不承认，制作的方法只有这么多，因此我打算与邻居们分享。

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"What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country, saying, 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing, ' " Rosen said.

CNN: Romney condemns Obama's 'assault on our economic freedom'