yes or no question

基本解释

This should be a Yes or No question.
答案应该是 Yes 或者 No question。
I won’t ask a yes-or-no question like "Can I help you?
我们从不会问那些答案只有“是”或“不是”的问题，像是“我能帮助你吗？”
Each time the leader cannot come up with the name that another player has in mind, he must answer truthfully a direct "yes or no" question.
领队不能说出另一名选手所想的名字，他只需照实回答“是”或“否”即可。

The answer that Yeats is giving here is different from saying either "yes" or "no" to that question.
叶芝此处给的答案,既不肯定也不否定。
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