Entreaty
[ɪn'triːtɪ;en-] or [ɪn'triti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) earnest or urgent request; 'an entreaty to stop the fighting'; 'an appeal for help'; 'an appeal to the public to keep calm'.
芭芭拉校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Treatment; reception; entertainment.
(n.) The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.
編輯:珀尔
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Supplication, prayer, petition, suit, solicitation, appeal, importunity, ADJURATION.
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例句/造句/用法:
- But Mr. Peggotty made no such retort, only answering with another entreaty to Mrs. Gummidge to cheer up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The reasons for this alteration were at the same time related, and they were such as to make further entreaty on his side impossible. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- She shall wring them all out of me slowly and separately--only by confession, penitence, entreaty. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He needed no second entreaty; and she prepared her father's bed, and begged him to lie down. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- A most earnest, pressing, and emphatic entreaty, addressed to you in the most pathetic tones of the voice so dear to you, that you well remember. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- But she would not be put off; secure of his unaltered love, she was willing to undertake any labour, use any entreaty, to dispel his anger. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Again she yielded to the entreaty, and again they came back to the same place, and again he worked at the stone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You have only to _read_ the part, said Henry Crawford, with renewed entreaty. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Jane instantly gave a look at Elizabeth which spoke her distress at such premeditation, and her entreaty that _she_ would not give in to it. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Therefore I make the entreaty I have now preferred, and I hope you will have sufficient consideration for me to accede to it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The venerable Isaac is subjected to an alembic, which will distil from him all he holds dear, without any assistance from my requests or thy entreaty. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by his absence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The old girl promptly makes a sign of entreaty to him to say nothing; assenting with a nod, he suffers them to enter as he shuts the door. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But let me, it is my last entreaty, let me in the praises of his countrymen and the prosperity of England, find the choice of my youth justified. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I regretted it exceedingly, for she was very grateful, and I felt sure would have resisted no entreaty of mine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In one circumstance only even the entreaties of Rebecca were unable to secure sufficient attention to the accommodation of the wounded knight. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- They thanked her; but were obliged to resist all her entreaties. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. Palmer joined their entreaties, all seemed equally anxious to avoid a family party; and the young ladies were obliged to yield. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I will not go to-night, said I, in answer to Julia's pressing entreaties, and I kept my word. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- He replied to her fervid entreaties, that he would never be able to get up the narrow stairs without Bob; where was Bob, would nobody fetch Bob? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Poor Isaac was hurried off accordingly, and expelled from the preceptory; all his entreaties, and even his offers, unheard and disregarded. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I told him all about it and how her first entreaties had referred to his forgiveness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The entreaties to remain were pressing, but Mr. Pickwick was inflexible. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- No entreaties will move the obdurate Hassan. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Of late the Misses Dobbin more than once repeated their entreaties to Amelia, to allow George to visit them. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- No entreaties on the part of the good old housekeeper will induce Mrs. Bagnet to retain the coach for her own conveyance home. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He yielded to it in that light only, when he submitted to her entreaties, backed by those of his uncle and sister. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The letter ended with many tender professions and entreaties that I would go to him. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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