in denial

基本解释

You can be in denial about something happening to you or to someone else.
你可以因发生在自身或是他人身上的事件而进入否认状态。
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，否认可能包含有意识的成分——在某种程度上，你能够选择处于否认状态。
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.
如果你处于否认状态，你会对生活中发生的事抱有不现实的想法——而这些事对于周围其他人来说是显而易见的。

"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,都无能为力--这似乎是《利西达斯》的含义之一,-所有这些都无法避免这位诗人的早逝。
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