negar

Te negabas a usar un anillo de compromiso.	I learned that when I tried to get you to wear a ring.
Te negabas a usar un anillo de compromiso.	I Iearned that when I tried to get you to wear a ring.
Que te negabas a darle una carta de recomendación.	She said you wouldn't give her a letter of recommendation.
No sé por qué, te negabas a abrir los ojos.	For some reason, you simply refused to open your eyes.
Por eso te negabas a acostarte conmigo todos esos años.	So that's why you refused to sleep with me all these years.
Hice por ti todo lo que te negabas a hacer.	Anything you refused to do, I did for you.
He hecho lo que te negabas a hacer.	I've done what you refused to do.
Él quería, pero tu te negabas.	He wanted it, but you refused.
Cada vez que intentaba sacarlo a colación, te negabas a hablar de ello.	Every time it has been brought up you have refused to talk about it.
O, tal vez las tienes, y apoyaste el sufrimiento mientras te negabas a ti mismo la alegría.	Or, perhaps you have, and supported suffering while you withheld yourself from joy.
Eras nuestra cabeza, pero te negabas a serlo, aunque se te veía sonriente al verte enfrentando, nuevamente, un desafío.	You were our leader, but you always denied it, even though we saw you smiling when you were confronted with a challenge.
En tu niñez y en tu adolescencia una de tus características dominantes era encontrarle solución a todo; te negabas a aceptar, desde entonces, la idea de lo insoluble. Aun frente al desahucio buscabas algo que salvar.	In your childhood and adolescence one of the dominant characteristics of your personality was always to find a solution for everything; ever since your childhood, you refused to accept the possibility that anything could be unsolvable.