He hoped they would not feel affronted if they were not invited.

他希望如果他们没有获得邀请也不要感到受辱。

《牛津词典》

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The only country not invited was Cuba.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

We are invited to be not merely passive onlookers of this conversation, but active participants in that dialogue that takes place in this book over the course of a single evening.

我们不仅受邀,作为这场会谈的被动旁观者，更受邀参与进行中的对谈,时间就在那一晚,内容是本书。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So I was a counselor for a year, and then they invited me to become a dean, an assistant dean, in order to not only work with individual students and their issues, but to also think about campus culture and ways we might help prepare the culture for the change that was taking place.

这样我做了一年的顾问，之后他们请我做了院长，副院长，这样就不仅仅是处理,一个个学生和他们的事情，还要思考校园的文化,思考如何帮助校园文化准备好,应对将要发生的改变。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Everyone is partying and you're the lonely kid in the corner who is not invited.

WSJ: The Ultimate Spa Treatment: Privacy

The court heard that contemporaneous notes by the officer suggested Mr Rylands had not invited him.

BBC: Cockerel (generic)

Richard Branson, who jestfully pushed his host into the swimming pool, was not invited back.

ECONOMIST: Jimmy Goldsmith