他本来拒绝打，但是儒家的孝道使他不得不几乎每天都把妻子打得死去活来。
He tried to refuse, but because of the Confucian code of filial piety he could do nothing but beat her insensible almost every day.
罗伯斯说他本来想拒绝这份工作，但妻子坚持让他接受，因为她从哈萨克斯坦回威尔士好几个月了，渴望新的冒险经历。
He says that he was about to decline the offer when his wife pushed him to accept; she longed for another adventure, months after repatriating from Kazakhstan back to Wales.
本来卡梅隆几周前就应该被交易到篮网了，但随着他拒绝了续约的承诺，交易告吹。
Carmelo would have gotten traded to the Nets a few weeks ago, but he refused to commit to a contract extension, and a trade fell apart.
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