He offered the boys some coffee. They declined politely.

他要给男孩们来些咖啡。他们礼貌地拒绝了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

"We don't buy clothes we can't try on," she'd say when they declined, and we'd walk out in Mama's dignified manner.

当他们拒绝时，她会说：“我们不买我们不能试穿的衣服。”然后我们像妈妈一样庄严地走出去。

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I offered to give them a lift but they declined.

我主动邀请他们搭车，但他们婉言谢绝了。

《牛津词典》

The U.S.Federal Bureau of Investigation and other federal law enforcement agencies are providing assistance to Mexican authorities in this investigation, but they have declined to comment on the developments in Mexico.

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That means that they've never declined as much in one month before; our data started in 1987.

那意味着它们从来没有在,一个月之内下降过这么多；,我们从1987年就开始记录数据了。

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They declined to discuss the drone's route or whether it had approached any sensitive facilities.

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Enron employees, barred from selling their shares as they declined, fumed as their nest eggs cracked.

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Prices tripled, although on a real basis they declined steadily after that until around 2003.

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