Officials declined to borrow against next year's state aid, they refused to trim extracurricular activities and they did not consider seeking a smaller—perhaps more acceptable—tax increase.

官员们拒绝借用下一年度的国家补助金，拒绝削减课外活动，也没有考虑寻求一个更低的（也许是更易接受的）税收增长。

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She had asked the government for permission to move the books to a safe place, but they refused.

她曾请求政府允许她把书移到一个安全的地方，但他们拒绝了。

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And they refused to surrender.

而且他们拒绝投降。

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They refused to trust even Japanese-American families who had lived in the United States for more than a century.

VOA: special.2011.06.30

First,they refused to let many of the recently elected southern congressmen take their seats when Congress opened.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

They refused even to talk about selling California to the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

In many cases, they refused to have pupils expelled for violence and then reinstated back in their classrooms.

BBC: Expulsions rise for second year

They refused because their daily job activities and their employees meant more to them than money.

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When he first started approaching officers on soldiers' behalf, they refused to take his phone calls.

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