英语单词 | solicit |
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英美音标 | 英 [sə'lɪsɪt] 美 [sə'lɪsɪt] |
中文释义 | vt.恳求;征求;勾引 vi.(妓女)拉客 |
英语例句 | (1) We solicit your close cooperation with us in this matter. (2) We should often solicit opinions from the masses . (3) They were planning to solicit funds from a number of organizations. (4) To solicit a judge means to offer him bribes. (5) She was fined for soliciting. |
中文例句 | (1) 我们恳求您对于此一事件能给予协助和合作。 (2) 我们应该经常征求群众意见。 (3) 他们正计划向一些机构募集资金。 (4) 引诱法官就是给予贿胳。 (5) 她因拉客而被罚款。 |
vocabulary简明 | Solicit means to ask for. It is what those people on the street are doing, when they ask, "Do you have a moment to talk about the destruction of the planet?" They are soliciting donations for their cause. |
vocabulary扩展 | Solicit has an official sounding impressiveness to it––doesn't soliciting donations sound better than begging for money? It can also have a more sinister cast. "When the teacher left the room, two girls solicited their friends to throw all the textbooks out the windows, injuring members of the cheer squad below — where they were soliciting signatures for a petition banning smoking in the football locker rooms." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]请求给予(金钱、帮助、支持等);征求(意见) If you solicit money, help, support, or an opinion from someone, you ask them for it. [V n] [V n [FORMAL 正式]
2 [VERB 动词](妓女)拉客 When prostitutes solicit, they offer to have sex with people in return for money. [V]
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