- 1/pliː/懇求；（法律）答辯
A plea is a strong, often emotional request for something — "a plea for help." In court, a plea is also the formal answer a person gives about whether they are guilty or not guilty — "a guilty plea."
示範例句 · Example
The family made an emotional plea for help finding their lost dog.
逐字那個家庭做出了一個充滿情緒的懇求，為了找到他們走失的狗。
常見搭配
a plea for help
求助的呼喊
an urgent request asking someone to help
The message on the wall was a plea for help.
make a plea
提出懇求
to ask for something in a strong, emotional way
The coach made a plea for calm after the game.
an emotional plea
情緒激動的懇求
a request made while showing strong feelings
Her emotional plea was shown on the evening news.
ignore someone's plea
不理會某人的懇求
to take no notice of an urgent request
The company ignored the workers' pleas for safer machines.
core核心畫面
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pleanoun/pliː/
- 1
An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
- Even if only one person answers my plea for someone to correspond with it will be a blessing.
- a plea for mercy
- 2
An excuse; an apology.
- Necessity, the tyrant’s plea.
- No Plea must serve; ’tis cruelty to spare.
- 3
That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
- 4
lawThat which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
- 5
lawAn allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
- 6
lawThe defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
- 7
lawA cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
- they or any three of them shall be a Court and have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed.
pleaverb/pliː/
- 1
regionalTo plead; to argue.
- With my riches, my unhappiness was increased tenfold; and here, with another great acquisition of property, for which I had pleaed, and which I had gained in a dream, my miseries and difficulties were increasing.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。