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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If they miss the sound of your voice when they expect it they may be frightened, and refuse to take us out of the fight.
-- Alas!others of the Achaeans, like Achilles, are in anger with me that they refuse to fight by the sterns of our ships.'
-- 'My dear child,' said she, 'will you do what I am going to ask of you, or will refuse me because you are angry at my being on the Danaan side, while you are on the Trojan?'
-- Thereon laughter-loving Venus said, 'I cannot and must not refuse you, for you sleep in the arms of Jove who is our king.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Le Renard Subtil is too much of a warrior,' said the re-luctant Heyward, 'to refuse telling an unarmed man what his conquerors say.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest.
-- If you said you came on my behalf, he couldn't refuse to listen to you."
-- Don't refuse me that."
-- Perhaps she refused to have him sent for because she knew he would refuse to come.
-- He looked as if he hadn't had a meal for a week, and I hadn't the heart to refuse him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Very well,' said Mrs Quilp, nodding her head, 'as I said just now, it's very easy to talk, but I say again that I know that I'm sure Quilp has such a way with him when he likes, that the best looking woman here couldn't refuse him if I was dead, and she was free, and he chose to make love to her.
-- 'He may, perhaps, Christopher, if you refuse his offer,' said Mr Garland gravely.
-- There were many such whispers as these in circulation; but the truth appears to be that, after the lapse of some five years (during which there is no direct evidence of her having been seen at all), two wretched people were more than once observed to crawl at dusk from the inmost recesses of St Giles's, and to take their way along the streets, with shuffling steps and cowering shivering forms, looking into the roads and kennels as they went in search of refuse food or disregarded offal.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The justiciary was hurrying the case, and though he knew that the reading of the report would only bring ennui and delay the dinner, and that the prosecutor demanded it only because he had the right to do so, he could not refuse the request and gave his consent.
-- "So you refuse to take the land?"
-- We are complaining of conditions, but refuse to aid the government."
-- At the same time, on the one hand, he could not refuse the appointment, because he would not disappoint those who thought they were pleasing him by it, and, on the other hand, the appointment flattered his vanity.
-- And he married principally because to refuse would have been to offend and cause pain to the bride and those who had arranged the match.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He will not refuse your help.
-- "And the harpoon, sir," said the Canadian, "if you do not refuse my help."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was well he did, for the whole hill back was one billowy, white ocean; the swells and falls not indicating corresponding rises and depressions in the ground: many pits, at least, were filled to a level; and entire ranges of mounds, the refuse of the quarries, blotted from the chart which my yesterday's walk left pictured in my mind.
-- 'To be sure, considering the exhibition you performed in his presence this afternoon, I might say it would be wise to refuse him: since he asked you after that, he must either be hopelessly stupid or a venturesome fool.
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