cannot choose but

基本解释

I cannot choose but wait.
我别无选择，只好等待。
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We cannot choose but attend their wedding.
我们只好参加他们的婚礼。
They cannot choose but admit that our requirement is reasonable.
我们无法选择只能承认我们的要求是合理的。

So nevertheless, even having given you that historical example, we're going to come back and we'll look later on in the class at a model in which politicians cannot choose their positions, but, rather, you know their positions ahead of time.
尽管如此,尽管我列举了一个历史上的例子,我们还是要回到课堂上来,我们接下来要来探讨一个,政客不能自己选立场的模型,但是当然你们可以提前获知他们的立场
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