in denial

基本解释

You can be in denial about something happening to you or to someone else.
你可以因發生在自身或是他人身上的事件而進入否認狀態。
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，你能夠選擇処於否認狀態。
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.
如果你処於否認狀態，你會對生活中發生的事抱有不現實的想法——而這些事對於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.
所有的自律和自我尅制,都無能爲力--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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