Having taken up an attitude of aloofness from the gay people here, at the time when Dick's work and her health were incompatible with going about, they had a reputation as refusers.

从这里的同性恋者那里采取了一种冷漠的态度， 在迪克的工作和她的健康与活动不相容的时候， 他们有拒绝者的名声。