entreaty

英 [ɪnˈtriːti]

美 [ɪnˈtriːti]

n.  恳求; 乞求

复数：entreaties　

GRE

BNC.23603 / COCA.21942

牛津词典

noun

• 恳求；乞求
  a serious and often emotional request

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 恳求;乞求
  Anentreatyis a very polite, serious request.
  1. The FA has resisted all entreaties to pledge its support to the campaign.
     足协拒绝了一切希望它能承诺支持这次运动的请求。

英英释义

noun

• earnest or urgent request
  1. an entreaty to stop the fighting
  2. an appeal for help
  3. an appeal to the public to keep calm
  Synonym:prayerappeal

双语例句

• On my life, hester, I made my entreaty to the worshipful magistrate that it might be done forthwith.
  我敢发誓，海丝特，我当即恳求那可敬的长官，这事应予立即施行！
• The lake lies low by the hill, a tearful entreaty of love at the foot of the inflexible.
  湖躺在山脚下，像在执拗者的跟前含泪恳求爱。
• In reply to her mother's command and entreaty that she would behave more decorously, little Pearl paused to gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock which grew beside the tomb.
  听到她母亲又是命令又是恳求地要她放规矩些，小珠儿才不再跳舞，从长在墓旁的一株高大的牛蒡上采集多刺的果实。
• Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; grim determination.
  不会因恳求而被安抚、满足和打动；“不屈的决心”。
• Entreaty failed, so I tried threats.
  恳求无效，因此我便试用威胁的办法。
• "You have only to_read_the part," said Henry Crawford, with renewed entreaty.
  “你只要念念台词就行了，”亨利·克劳福德又一次恳求说。
• Angel's father tried argument, persuasion, entreaty.
  安琪尔的父亲努力同他争论，劝说他，恳求他。
• Inducement by argument or reasoning or entreaty. His doctrines have seduced a great many people into error.
  通过争论、说理、乞求进行诱导的行为。他的学说诱导许多人犯错。
• And when he prayed to him, the Lord was moved by his entreaty and listened to his plea; so he brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom.
  他祈祷耶和华，耶和华就允准他的祈求，垂听他的祷告，使他归回耶路撒冷，仍坐国位。
• To use urgent entreaty, to ask or seek importunately.
  迫切，不厌其烦的请求。