in denial

基本解釋

You can be in denial about something happening to you or to someone else.
你可以因發(fā)生在自身或是他人身上的事件而進入否認狀態(tài)。
But some research suggests that denial might have a conscious component — on some level, you might choose to be in denial.
但是一些研究表明，否認可能包含有意識的成分——在某種程度上，你能夠選擇處于否認狀態(tài)。
If you're in denial, you're not being realistic about something that's happening in your life — something that might be obvious to those around you.
如果你處于否認狀態(tài)，你會對生活中發(fā)生的事抱有不現(xiàn)實的想法——而這些事對于周圍其他人來說是顯而易見的。

"Turkey's persistent denial and inability to face, or unwillingness to face up to its history is very disruptive in all kinds of ways - in terms of international relations, in terms of its own internal politics - and it also prevents it from really recognizing how do you deal with minorities."
All of the self-discipline and all of the self-denial in the world can do nothing -- this seems to be one of the implications of this poem - can do nothing to protect the poet from an untimely death.
所有的自律和自我克制,都無能為力--這似乎是《利西達斯》的含義之一,-所有這些都無法避免這位詩人的早逝。
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As soon as I hit the water I realized that maybe I was in denial.
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Most Dems are in denial about their one glaring, elephant-size flaw--a lack of positive ideas.
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