Major supermarkets, in meeting consumer expectations, will often reject entire crops of perfectly edible fruit and vegetables at the farm because they do not meet exacting marketing standards for their physical characteristics, such as size and appearance.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
We use bonding humor to enhance our social connections* but we also may employ it as a way of excluding or rejecting an outsider
出自-2013年12月听力原文
They reject conventional values.
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
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VERB
拒绝考虑;不接受;不同意
If you reject something such as a proposal, a request, or an offer, you do not accept it or you do not agree to it.
例句
The British government is expected to reject the idea of state subsidy for a new high speed railway...
预计英国政府不会考虑为修建一条新的高速铁路提供国家补贴的设想。
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript before Jenks saw its potential.
17家出版社回绝了这部手稿，直到詹克斯看到了它的潜在价值。
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VERB
摈弃，抛弃，不接受(信仰或政治制度)
If you reject a belief or a political system, you refuse to believe in it or to live by its rules.
例句
...the children of Eastern European immigrants who had rejected their parents' political and religious beliefs.
抛弃了父母一代政治和宗教信仰的东欧移民子女
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VERB
不录用;不录取
If someone is rejected for a job or course of study, it is not offered to them.
例句
One of my most able students was rejected by another university.
我的一个最有能力的学生申请另一所大学落选了。
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VERB
冷漠对待;拒绝…的爱意
If someone rejects another person who expects affection from them, they are cold and unfriendly towards them.
例句
You make friends with people and then make unreasonable demands so that they reject you.
你和别人交朋友，然后向人家提出无理要求，结果被人家拒绝。
...people who had been rejected by their lovers.
被爱人拒绝的人
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VERB
排斥(移植器官)；对…产生排斥反应
If a person's body rejects something such as a new heart that has been transplanted into it, it tries to attack and destroy it.
例句
It was feared his body was rejecting a kidney he received in a transplant four years ago.
令人担心的是，他的身体可能对4年前移植的肾产生了排斥反应。
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VERB
(投币设备)拒绝接受(硬币)
If a machine rejects a coin that you put in it, the coin comes out and the machine does not work.
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残次品;等外品
A reject is a product that has not been accepted for use or sale, because there is something wrong with it.