refuse是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 拒绝， 谢绝n. 废物， 垃圾，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I ask all good and gentle readers to be so kind as to forget this, and to refuse steadfastly to believe that there are any inhabitants of a Victorian Wessex outside the pages of this and the companion volumes in which they were first discovered.
-- Bathsheba paused, as if about to refuse a reply, but the temptation to say yes, since it was really in her power was irresistible by aspiring virginity, in spite of her spleen at having been published as old.
-- Sergeant Troy had so strenuously insisted, glass in hand, that drinking should be the bond of their union, that those who wished to refuse hardly liked to be so unmannerly under the circumstances.
-- But having fallen in with Farmer Boldwood accidentally (on her part at least) at the refreshment-tent, she found it impossible to refuse his offer to ride on horseback beside her as escort.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cook sweeps all the refuse out through a little door into the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, and frequently cleanses the yard with copious supplies of water, under pain of pestilence.
-- How he can refuse to acknowledge her I cannot think, for they are as alike as two peas."
-- There is gulf set between the sisters--indeed, they are sisters no longer--the two women who refuse to acknowledge their father do not acknowledge each other.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede.'
-- 'I do refuse it,' I replied; 'and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me.
-- He had sworn to quit the neighbourhood of man and hide himself in deserts, but she had not; and she, who in all probability was to become a thinking and reasoning animal, might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation.
-- You refuse my just demand; I have but one resource, and I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his de-struction.'
-- Yet could I, in justice, or even in possibility, refuse this demand?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But with young bachelors ah, that was a different matter!You could laugh softly at them and when they cameflying to see why you laughed, you could refuse to tell them and laugh harder and keep them around indefinitely tryingto find out.
-- It was almost impossible to obtain these small luxuries now ladies were wearing hand-whittled wooden hairpins and covering acrons with cloth for buttons and Pitty lacked themoral stamina to refuse them.
-- And, having once opened them, she did not feel that she could refuse them.
-- He would raise his brows in that nasty way he always had when she even mentionedAshley's name and, like as not, would refuse to give her the hat.
-- Oh, Dear God!Was he going to refuse to take her home, after all she'd gone through this terrible day?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, after I had made the monster (out of the refuse of my washerwoman's family), and had clothed him with a blue coat, canary waistcoat, white cravat, creamy breeches, and the boots already mentioned, I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am as heartily sorry as any of my readers can possibly be, that such an occasion was given: but this prince happened to be so curious and inquisitive upon every particular, that it could not consist either with gratitude or good manners, to refuse giving him what satisfaction I was able.
-- If any town should engage in rebellion or mutiny, fall into violent factions, or refuse to pay the usual tribute, the king has two methods of reducing them to obedience.
-- Now your honour is to know, that these judges are persons appointed to decide all controversies of proper-ty, as well as for the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy; and having been biassed all their lives against truth and equity, lie under such a fatal necessity of favouring fraud, perju-ry, and oppression, that I have known some of them refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty, by doing any thing unbecoming their na-ture or their office.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether she would instantly depart, bag and baggage, to Lady Scadgers, or would positively refuse to budge from the premises; whether she would be plaintive or abusive, tearful or tearing; whether she would break her heart, or break the looking-glass; Mr. Bounderby could not all foresee.
-- 'After what has been just now represented to me, in a manner I find it impossible to doubt I know of hardly any other source from which I could have accepted it so readily I feel bound to say to you, in whom the confidence you have mentioned has been reposed, that I cannot refuse to contemplate the possibility (however unexpected) of my seeing the lady no more.
-- 'Father,' said Louisa, for he was present, 'I cannot refuse to see them, for a reason that will explain itself.
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