Our requests were met with a flat refusal.

【flat，flatness】我们的请求遭到断然拒绝。

Aronsen was forced to go back each time with a flat refusal, more and more disgusted at his own lack of foresight in ever having given up the place.

每次阿伦森都被断然拒绝而被迫回去，他越来越厌恶自己因缺乏远见而放弃了这个地方。