The lady's refusal to drink of Comus' cup was just the first of Milton's attempts to bring the action of ingestion to the very center of a literary work.

拒绝司酒宴之神的杯子的女士,是弥尔顿第一次尝试把摄取食物的行动,注入到文学作品的中心去。

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You could see the kind of grim refusal to apologize for "boughten friendship," as a kind of, well, as a kind of apology for his own popular success.

你可以看到他无情地拒绝了,为“买来的友谊“道歉“,就像为他自己当红的成功,道歉一样。

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And there is something attractive in this refusal to judge.

这种拒绝比较快乐的观点确有迷人之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And we pay a very high price for this inability, for this refusal to accept the fact that it is part of human nature that is constrained, that is there no matter what.

我们为这种无能付出高昂代价，为拒绝接受,本性受约束，生而有之的事实，付出高昂代价。

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concerned his refusal to join in the judgment to condemn and execute the ten Athenian generals who had failed to collect the corpses, the bodies, of the men lost in a particular battle during the Peloponnesian War?

关于他拒绝参与,谴责及处决十名雅典将军的审判,只因为他们无能,运回战死官兵尸体，那些在著名的伯罗奔尼萨战役中,牺牲的官兵？

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But is that right, this refusal to make qualitative distinctions?

但是不进行定性区分是对的吗？

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