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

• Global Call for Shift from Antagonistic View of Opposition to Entreaty View of Opposition-Analysis on Ways towards Shift in Social Relationship from Chaos and Collapse to Affection and Harmony
  敌对对立观向对待对立观转变的全人类呼唤&试析全球社会关系由混乱、崩溃向爱与和谐转变的途径
• 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。
• Entreaty failed, so I tried threats.
  恳求无效，因此我便试用威胁的办法。
• 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。
• He felt very uncomfortable and looked entreaty at us.
  他感到很不自在，用恳求的目光望着我们。
• It must have been a harder heart than Susan Nipper's that could have rejected the little purse Florence held out with these words, or the gentle look of entreaty with which she seconded her petition.
  必须要有一颗比苏珊·尼珀更为冷酷无情的心才能拒绝弗洛伦斯讲这些话时拿出的钱包或者她提出这个请求时伴随着的温柔的、恳求的眼光。
• "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。
• 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！
• 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”。
• Changing a person's beliefs by argument or reasoning or entreaty.
  通过争论或说理恳求改变一个人的信仰。