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拒绝别人时，如果直接说“no”，似乎有点缺乏人情味，那么，我们要如何委婉得拒绝呢？ 1. nah A non-standard spelling of no, nah is often used when representing southern English pronunciation, particularly cockney speech 非标准拼写，常用作南方发音的代表，特别是伦敦音。 2. No 不 No dates to Old English. No可以追溯到古英语。 3. uh-uh 啊;哼 The imitative uh-uh is first found in its written form in the 1920s. 书面形式的uh-uh在1920年代首次出现。 4. Nix 拒绝;不行 Originally Victorian slang, nix can be compared withthe earlier German nix, which is a colloquial shortened form of nichts (‘nothing’). 最初是维多利亚时代的俚语，与德语中的nix相近，是nichts(其含义为nothing“没什么”)的口语缩写形式的。 5. nixie / nixy / nixey 不 And it wasn’t long until this slang term was given a –y/-ie suffix, used to form pet names and familiar diminutives. 没多久，这个俚语添加了-y/-ie后缀，用来作宠物姓名和熟人的昵称。 6. nope 不 The earliest sense of nope was actually another name for the bullfinch, used in the early 17th century –but fast forward to the the late 19th century and nope is being used for no, with an apparently arbitrary extension, at around the same time that yep began being used for yes. | 
