n. 垃圾；废物
vt. 拒绝；不愿；抵制
vi. 拒绝
英 [rɪ'fjuːz] 美 [ri'fjʊz]
权威例句
- The District Council made a weekly collection of refuse.
区政务委员会每周收取一次垃圾。
来自柯林斯例句 - 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。
来自柯林斯例句 - 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。
来自柯林斯例句 - 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。
来自柯林斯例句 - You were quite within your rights to refuse to co-operate with him.
你完全有权拒绝跟他合作。
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
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。
英文词源
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."
