v. 拒绝；回绝；推却；
n. 废弃物；垃圾；
1. 后接名词或代词作宾语，注意以下用法：
(1) 若后接人作宾语，表示拒绝某人。如：
It’s clever of her to refuse them. 她拒绝他们那是明智的。
(2) 若后接事物作宾语，表示拒绝接受某物。如：
He refused the money. 他拒绝收钱。
Why did she refuse the job? 她为什么拒绝接受这项工作。
(3) 若后接双宾语，通常表示给予某人某物。如：
He refused her nothing. 她要什么他就给什么。
They’ve refused him leave of absence. 他们不准他休假。
接双宾语时，若双宾语易位时，通常用介词to引出间接宾语。如：
We refused him admittance.=We refused admittance to him. 我们不让他入场。
2. 表示拒绝做某事，其后可接不定式，但不能接动名词，也不能接不定式的复合结构或that从句。如：
他拒绝我用他的词典。
正：He refused to let me use his dictionary.
误：He refused me to use his dictionary.
误：He refused my using his dictionary.
误：He refused that I should use his dictionary.
1. The District Council made a weekly collection of refuse.
区政务委员会每周收取一次垃圾。
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。
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。
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。
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。
6. They refuse to do anything about the real cause of crime: poverty.
他们拒绝采取措施解决引发犯罪的真正问题：贫穷。