拒绝

拒绝 jùjué in a sentence

Refuse (reject)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 7 sentences

拒绝 (jùjué) means Refuse (reject). Below are 7 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

他 拒绝 了我的邀请。

Tā jùjué le wǒ de yāoqǐng.

He turned down my invitation.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 拒绝

你也可以 拒绝 他的要求。

Nǐ yě kěyǐ jùjué tā de yāoqiú.

You can also refuse his request.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 拒绝

你有 拒绝 的权利。

Nǐ yǒu jùjué de quánlì.

You have the right to refuse.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 权利

他斩钉截铁地 拒绝 了。

Tā zhǎn dīng jié tiě de jùjué le.

He refused flatly and decisively.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 斩钉截铁

他有正当的理由 拒绝 。

Tā yǒu zhèngdàng de lǐyóu jùjué.

He has legitimate grounds for refusing.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 正当

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From the graded readers

那一刻我忽然明白:不懂得 拒绝 的人,时间是不值钱的。

nà / nèi yīkè wǒ hūrán míngbai: bù dǒngde jùjué de / dì rén, shíjiān shì bùzhí qián de / dì.

In that moment I understood: for someone who can't refuse, their time is worth nothing.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No

我这才知道,真正尊重你的人,不会因为一次 拒绝 就离开。

wǒ zhè / zhèi cái zhīdào, zhēnzhèng zūnzhòng nǐ de rén, bùhuì yīnwèi yīcì jùjué jiù líkāi.

That was when I learned that people who genuinely respect you don't leave over one refusal.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No

Questions about 拒绝

How is 拒绝 used in a sentence?

This page shows 7 sentences using 拒绝 (jùjué, "Refuse (reject)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 拒绝 an HSK word?

Yes — 拒绝 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

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