pleas

英 [pliːz]

美 [pliz]

n.  请求; 恳求; (被告或被告律师的)抗辩，答辩，辩护; (向法庭提供的)理由，借口，辩解
plea的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 恳求；请求
  Apleais an appeal or request for something, made in an intense or emotional way.
  1. Mr Nicholas made his emotional plea for help in solving the killing.
     尼古拉斯先生恳请帮助以解决这起凶杀案。
  2. ...an impassioned plea to mankind to act to save the planet.
     让人类行动起来拯救这个星球的慷慨激昂的呼吁
• N-COUNT （法庭上表明对于被指控的罪名服或不服的）申诉，答辩，抗辩
  In a court of law, a person'spleais the answer that they give when they have been charged with a crime, saying whether or not they are guilty of that crime.
  1. The judge questioned him about his guilty plea...
     法官就他的认罪答辩进行审问。
  2. We will enter a plea of not guilty...
     我们将进行无罪抗辩。
  3. Her plea of guilty to manslaughter through provocation was rejected.
     她因受到挑衅而过失杀人的有罪答辩被驳回。
• N-COUNT 辩由；借口；托词
  Apleais a reason which is given, to a court of law or to other people, as an excuse for doing something or for not doing something.
  1. Phillips murdered his wife, but got off on a plea of insanity...
     菲利普斯谋杀了他的妻子，但以精神错乱为由逃脱了惩罚。
  2. Mr Dunn's pleas of poverty are only partly justified.
     邓恩先生贫穷的托词只是部分成立。

双语例句

• They were deaf to all our pleas.
  他们对我们的所有请求充耳不闻。
• But so far Canberra and other states have rejected his pleas.
  但到目前为止，联邦政府和其他各州一直拒绝他的请求。
• They cried for mercy but their pleas were met with abuse and laughter
  他们哭喊着请求宽恕，可是他们的恳求却遭到了谩骂和嘲笑。
• The judge rejected pleas for leniency and sentenced him to six months in prison
  法官驳回了宽大处理的请求，判处他6个月的监禁。
• Israel impatiently dismisses our pathetic pleas for it to stop building settlements.
  以色列对我们要求它停止扩建定居点的可怜请求不屑一顾。
• The pleas were made at a meeting in Washington of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
  他们是在华盛顿召开的国际货币基金组织和世界银行会议上发出这一请求的。
• But their pleas appear unlikely to be answered.
  但他们的请求似乎不太可能得到响应。
• After several minutes of listening to her pleas, I finally said I didn't have the money.
  听了她几分钟的述求后，我最后说我没钱。
• And if there was a child, she had no need to come to him with pleas for marriage.
  如果有了孩子，她不需要回来请求他结婚。
• But Churchill's pleas were ignored by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
  然而，他的请求却被当时的首相内维尔？张伯伦忽视了。