It would be most ungracious and impolite to refuse a simple invitation to supper with him.

连与他共进晚餐这样的简单邀请都拒绝会显得非常失礼，没有教养。

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One question I often get when I have to refuse a student visa applicant is "when can I re-apply?"

当我不得不拒签一个学生签证申请人时，经常会被问到一个问题“我什么时候能再次申请？”

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Rosa Parks was not the first black person to refuse to give up a seat on the bus for a white person.

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Well, apparently Richard in real life did not refuse to make those changes. And imagine, in a book that then undergoes this publishing history that I have described, this is kind of a symbolic scene.

很明显，现实生活中的理查,并没有拒绝那些修改,想像一下，经历上述出版过程的一本书，这是象征性的场景。

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The Athenians refuse to tolerate Socrates because they know he is not harmless, that he poses a challenge, a fundamental challenge to their way of life and all that they hold to be noble and worthwhile.

雅典人拒绝容忍苏格拉底,因为他们明白他并非无害，他公然挑衅，社会本质的生活方式,及他们视为崇高及值得的观念。

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They would require officers to explain why they are stopping people, to tell people when they have a right to refuse a search and to hand out business cards identifying themselves.

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And while some settlements do require cash payments by the humans who made the decisions leading to shareholder losses, he said, in general the only choice an insurer can make is to refuse to issue a policy.

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And then there's me with a Facebook page that deserves to stay in the archives as I stubbornly refuse to add a subscribe button.

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