Molly and other people in her class who did not want to be pressured into smoking practiced this straightforward and simple refusal many times.

莫莉与她班级里其他不想被迫吸烟的同学，多次练习这种直截了当的简单拒绝方式。

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His refusal to talk was simple stubbornness.

他拒绝交谈只是出于固执。

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It might be something as simple as our deep-down refusal to believe that every human life has equal worth.

也许就是一些简单如我们内心拒绝去相信人人都有同样的价值的事。

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But aside from their hypocrisy and refusal to accept simple arithmetic realities, what stands out most clearly in these leftist American Jews' assault on Walsh is how they have become addicted to the fable of the two-state solution.

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Blair's stubborn refusal to acknowledge the simple fact that just as the Iranians will not cease uranium enrichment because they want to build atom bombs, so the Palestinians will reject all offers of statehood because they prefer to destroy the Jewish state is infuriating.

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