Petition
[pɪ'tɪʃ(ə)n] or [pə'tɪʃən]
解释:
(verb.) write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing.
艾伯特整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer.
(n.) A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document.
(v. t.) To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition the court; to petition the governor.
(v. i.) To make a petition or solicitation.
弗洛整理
同义词及近义词：
n. Request, prayer, supplication, entreaty, suit, solicitation, application, appeal, address.
v. a. Entreat, pray, supplicate, solicit, crave, ask, beg, apply to, make application to, prefer a request to.
整理:罗威娜
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Supplication, entreaty, craving, application, appeal, salutation, prayer,request, instance
ANT:Deprecation, expostulation, protect, command, injunction, claim, demand,requirement, exaction, dictation
埃利斯手打
解释:
n. a request generally from an inferior to a superior: a written request presented to a court of law or to a body of legislators: a prayer: a supplication.—v.t. to present a petition to: to ask as a favour: to supplicate.—adj. Petit′ionary offering or containing a petition: supplicatory.—ns. Petit′ioner one who offers a petition or prayer; Petit′ioning the act of presenting a petition: entreaty: solicitation; Petit′ionist.—adj. Pet′itory petitioning.—Petitio principii the fallacy of begging the question—a taking for granted in argument of that which has yet to be proved.
录入:泽维尔
例句:
- He told me he had promised the Bishop to sign some kind of a petition against divorce. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Know that a petition was presented to the King and Queen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Shortly after, the petition of the Massachusetts Assembly was taken up for examination before the privy council. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Monseigneur, a petition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- It is Defarge whom you see here, who, at the hazard of his life, darted out before the horses, with the petition in his hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Finding that they would hearken to no terms of accommodation, he laid his petition before the council. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- I have one other petition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Always petitions! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- There were juvenile letters and petitions from Rebecca, too, in the collection, imploring aid for her father or declaring her own gratitude. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I don't suppose such vicarial piety will avail much, but the petitions come out of a sincere breast, from innocent lips. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He was alone, examining some petitions lately presented. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Go patter thy petitions to heaven, said the fierce Norman, for we on earth have no time to listen to them. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Oh, I know,' said Sam; 'them as hangs up in the linen-drapers' shops, with beggars' petitions and all that 'ere upon 'em? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I laid it in your desk with a prayer: I must indeed be a sinner: Heaven will not hear the petitions that come warmest from my heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Mary petitioned for the use of the library at Netherfield; and Kitty begged very hard for a few balls there every winter. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- They are generally obliged, therefore, to content themselves with petitioning for certain encouragements to exportation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Now, too, she was not always petitioning to drink. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Mr. Hartright is petitioning for some more music, and he wants it, this time, of the lightest and liveliest kind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
手打:柯尔斯顿