[N-COUNT 可数名词]恳求;请求 A plea is an appeal or request for something, made in an intense or emotional way.
[oft N for n]
[JOURNALISM 新闻]
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。
...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
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](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's plea is the answer that they give when they have been charged with a crime, saying whether or not they are guilty of that crime.
[usu adj N]
The judge questioned him about his guilty plea...
法官就他的认罪答辩进行审问。
We will enter a plea of not guilty...
我们将进行无罪抗辩。
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。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]辩由;借口;托词 A plea is 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.
[usu N of n]
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。
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。
Oxford
plea/pliː; NAmEpliː/noun1( formal) an urgent emotional request 请求;恳求plea(for sth) ◆She made an impassioned plea for help.她恳切地求助。plea(to sb) (to do sth) ◆a plea to industries to stop pollution请求各个行业停止污染◆He refused to listen to her tearful pleas.他对她声泪俱下的恳求置之不理。2( law 律) a statement made by sb or for sb who is accused of a crime (被告或被告律师的)抗辩,答辩,辩护◆a plea of guilty/not guilty承认╱不承认有罪◆to enter aguilty plea正式表示认罪3pleaof sth ( law 律) a reason given to a court for doing or not doing sth (向法庭提供的)理由,借口,辩解◆He was charged with murder, but got off on a plea of insanity.他被指控犯了谋杀罪,但以精神错乱为由逃过惩罚。pleapleasplea/pliː; NAmEpliː/
LDC
pleaplea /pliː/ ●○○ noun
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1[countable] a request that is urgent or full of emotionplea for a plea for help Caldwell made a plea for donations.plea to The parents made an emotional plea to their child’s kidnappers.2[countable usually singular] a statement by someone in a court of law saying whether they are guilty or not: a guilty pleamake/enter a plea Adams entered a plea of ‘not guilty’.3[singular] an excuse for something: He refused the appointment on a plea of illness.
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plea
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pleas[770]
恳求(41%),抗辩(33%),借口(21%),申诉(5%)
n.恳求,请求;辩解,辩护;借口,托辞
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