学个词Learn a Word 第1147期 Decline

　　今天我们要学的词是decline。 Decline, 拒绝。 "The company declined to offer any specifics about its layoff¹ plan," 这家公司拒绝透露裁员计划的有关细节。 "The source declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the report," 鉴于报道的敏感性，提供消息的人拒绝公开身份。
维基揭密网站的创始人阿桑奇准备发表自传，在英、美两国发行，稿费共计130万美元。 "The spokesman of the U.K. publisher Canongate Books Ltd. declined to comment," 英国出版商坎农格特图书有限发行公司的发言人拒绝就此事发表评论。好的，今天我们学习的词是decline...

1 layoff   

n.临时解雇，操作停止，活动停止期间，失业期

参考例句：

• Finally, prepare an explanation about what led to your layoff.最后，要准备好一套说辞来解释你被解雇的原因。
• Workers were re-employed after the layoff.在暂时解雇不久后工人们又被再度雇用了。