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Solicit Soliciting Means Offer People Donations Girls Verb

英语单词 solicit
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
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[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 from n]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • He's already solicited their support on health care reform...

    他已就医疗改革问题请求他们的支持。

  • No tuition was charged by the school, which solicited contributions from the society's members.

    学校不收学费,所需资金向协会会员募集。

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[VERB 动词](妓女)拉客 When prostitutes solicit, they offer to have sex with people in return for money.
  [V]
  • Prostitutes were forbidden to solicit on public roads and in public places.

    禁止妓女在马路上和公共场所公然拉客。

soliciting
  • Girls could get very heavy sentences for soliciting — nine months or more.

    女子拉客可能会被处以重刑—— 9 个月或 9 个月以上监禁。

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