1·If he eats the cake, it could kill him; if he refuses it, it will make his wife angry and she will reject him: a double bind.
如果他吃了蛋糕,它足可以要了他的命;如果他拒绝这么做,就会激怒太太而且她就会拒绝接纳他:一个双重约束。
2·If he still refuses, tell him to move on.
如果他仍然拒绝,那就告诉他走人。
3·He refuses to baptize her.
他拒绝给她洗礼。
4·America and Israel, as well as some Arab leaders, see a chance to isolate Hamas, which refuses to contemplate a permanent peace with Israel.
又如美国和以色列,还包括一些阿拉伯领导人,则认为这是孤立拒绝给以色列提供永久和平哈马斯的一个良机。
5·Even now when PopCap has grown up to be a giant in the industry, Vechey still refuses the idea of leaping from game development to game publishing.
即使是现在,宝开游戏公司已然成为业内巨头,维奇仍然拒绝了从游戏开发跳到游戏出版这样的跳跃性理念。