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

• 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。
• 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。
• "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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Yahweh forgives the three at the entreaty of Job, who is restored to double his former prosperity.
  耶和华宽恕三个在恳求的工作，谁是他的恢复双前繁荣。
• To make a fervent request or an entreaty. He has a hunger for/ after knowledge.
  祈求，祈愿强烈地要求或请求他有强烈的求知欲。
• To use urgent entreaty, to ask or seek importunately.
  迫切，不厌其烦的请求。