refuse
英 [rɪ'fjuːz]
美 [ri'fjʊz]
- n. 垃圾；废物
- vt. 拒绝；不愿；抵制
- vi. 拒绝
CET4 TEM4 考 研 CET6
refuse 拒绝，回绝re-,向后，往回，-fus,流入，词源同 refund,fusion.即流回，引申词义拒绝，回绝。
- refuse
- refuse: [14] Refuse comes via Old French refuser from an unrecorded Vulgar Latin *refūsāre. It is not altogether clear where this came from, for it has no direct Latin antecedent. One theory is that it represents a blend of Latin recūsāre ‘refuse’ (source of English recusant [16]), a compound verb based on causa ‘cause’, and refūtāre ‘rebut’ (source of English refute [16]), a compound verb based on the element *fūt-, found also in English confute [16].
But another long-established school of thought derives it from refūsus, the past participle of Latin refundere ‘pour back’ (source of English refund [14]) – the underlying notion being of something ‘poured back’ or ‘rejected’. The noun refuse ‘rubbish’ [15] probably comes from Old French refus ‘refusal’, a derivative of refuser ‘refuse’.
- refuse (v.)
- c. 1300, from Old French refuser "reject, disregard, avoid" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *refusare, frequentative form from past participle stem of Latin refundere "pour back, give back" (see refund (v.)). Related: Refused; refusing.
- refuse (n.)
- mid-14c., "an outcast;" mid-14c., "a rejected thing, waste material, trash," from Old French refus "waste product, rubbish; refusal, denial, rejection," a back-formation from the past participle of refuser (see refuse (v.)). As an adjective from late 14c., "despised, rejected;" early 15c., "of low quality."
- 1. The District Council made a weekly collection of refuse.
- 区政务委员会每周收取一次垃圾。
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- 2. I've always had a loud mouth, I refuse to be silenced.
- 我一贯大声说出自己的想法，不会迫于压力而一言不发。
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- 3. I refuse to act that way when my kids fight.
- 我的孩子们打起架来时，我不会那样做。
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- 4. Those who refuse to repent, he said, will be punished.
- 那些拒不悔改的人，他说，将会受到惩罚。
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- 5. You were quite within your rights to refuse to co-operate with him.
- 你完全有权拒绝跟他合作。
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