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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionaryplease I \ˈplēz\ verb (pleased ; pleas·ing) ETYMOLOGY Middle English plesen, from Anglo-French plaisir,pleisir, pleire, from Latin placēre; akin to Latin placare to placate and perhaps to Greek plak-, plax flat surface — more at fluke DATE 14th centuryintransitive verb1. to afford or give pleasure or satisfaction2. like, wish do as you please3. archaic : to have the kindness will you please to enter the carriage — Charles Dickenstransitive verb1. to give pleasure to : gratify2. to be the will or pleasure of may it please Your Majesty• pleas·er \ˈplē-zər\ noun II adverb DATE 16671. — used as a function word to express politeness or emphasis in a request please come in2. — used as a function word to express polite affirmation like some tea? Please3. — used as a function word to express scornful disagreement, disapproval, or disbelief you believe that? Oh, pleaseEnglish Etymologyplease please (v.) early 14c., "to be agreeable," from O.Frhttp://O.Fr. plaisir (Fr.plaire) "to please," from L. placere "to be acceptable, be liked, be approved," related to placare "to soothe, quiet," from PIE base *p(e)lag- "to smooth, make even" (cf. Gk. plax, gen. plakos "level surface," plakoeis "flat;" Lett. plakt "to become flat;" O.N. flaga"layer of earth;" Norw. flag "open sea;" O.E. floh "piece of stone, fragment;" O.H.G. fluoh "cliff"). Intransitive sense (e.g. do as you please) first recorded c.1500; imperative use (e.g. please do this), first recorded 1620s, was probably a shortening of if it please (you) (late 14c.). Verbs for "please" supply the stereotype polite word ("Please come in," short for may it please you to ...) in many languages (Fr., It.), "But more widespread is the use of the first singular of a verb for 'ask, request' " [Buck, who cites Ger.bitte, Pol. prasze, etc.] Sp. favor is short for hace el favor "do the favor." Danish has in this sense vær saa god, lit. "be so good."Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7☞ pleaseplease / pli:z / exclamation1. used as a polite way of asking for sth or telling sb to do sth (用于客气地请求或吩咐)请,请问: Please sit down. 请坐。 Two coffees, please. 请来两客咖啡。 Quiet please! 请安静！ Please could I leave early today? 请问,我今天早走一会儿行吗？ 2. used to add force to a request or statement (用于加强请求或陈述的语气)请千万,请务必,的确: Please don't leave me here alone. 请千万别把我一个人留在这儿。 Please, please don't forget. 请务必务必不要忘记呀。 Please, I don't understand what I have to do. 我的确不明白我该做什么。 3. used as a polite way of accepting sth (表示接受的客气话)太感谢了,太好了: 'Would you like some help?' 'Yes, please.' "您需要帮忙吗？" "是的。太感谢了。" 'Coffee?' 'Please.' "要咖啡吗？" "那太好了。" 4. Please! (informal, often humorous) used to ask sb to stop behaving badly (用于让别人停止不规矩行为)别闹了,收敛点儿: Children, please! I'm trying to work. 孩子们,别闹了！我在干活哪。 John! Please! 约翰！老实点儿吧！ 5. Please, P-lease / pE5li:z / used when you are replying to sb who has said sth that you think is stupid (认为对方说话荒唐时用)得了吧,算了吧: Oh, please! You cannot be serious. 喔,得了吧！你准是在打哈哈。 verb1. to make sb happy 使满意；使愉快: ▪ [VN] You can't please everybody. 你无法让每个人都满意。 He's a difficult man to please. 他是个难以取悦的人。 There's just no pleasing some people (= some people are impossible to please). 有些人你是没法让他们满意的。 I did it to please my parents. 我这么做是要让父母高兴。 ▪ [V] She's always very eager to please. 她总是急欲取悦别人。 ▪ [also VN to inf] OPP displease 2. [V] often used after as or what, where, etc. to mean 'to want', 'to choose' or 'to like' to do sth (常用在 as 或 what、 where 等词后)想,选择,喜欢: You may stay as long as you please. 你想呆多久就呆多久。 She always does exactly as she pleases. 她总是我行我素。 I'm free now to live wherever I please. 我现在想住哪里就住哪里。 IDIOMS ▪ if you 'please 1. (old-fashioned, formal) used when politely asking sb to do sth (用于特别表示客气)请: Take a seat, if you please. 请坐吧。 2. (old-fashioned, especially BrE) used to say that you are annoyed or surprised at sb's actions (用于对某人的行为表示气愤或惊异)你们听听,岂有此理: And now, if you please, he wants me to rewrite the whole thing! 哼！你们听听,他竟要我全部重写！ ▪ 7please the 'eye to be very attractive to look at 十分悦目▪ 7please 'God used to say that you very much hope or wish that sth will happen (表示殷切期望)但愿老天帮忙,上帝保佑: Please God, don't let him be dead. 老天爷呀！千万别让他死啊。 ▪ 7please your'self (informal) used to tell sb that you are annoyed with them and do not care what they do (表示恼怒和不关心)随你的便,悉听尊便: 'I don't think I'll bother finishing this.' 'Please yourself.' "我想我不必费力做完这件事。" "随你的便。" ▪ 7please your'self | 7do as you 'please to be able to do whatever you like 能够随心所欲: There were no children to cook for, so we could just please ourselves. 因为不用给孩子做饭,我们就可以自便了。 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of EnglishOxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishplease verb ADV. enormously The result pleased us enormously. VERB + PLEASE be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to Some children are very difficult to please. | be easy to | be eager to He's always very eager to please. | try to | fail to The planning policy failed to please anyone. PHRASES there's no pleasing sb There's just no pleasing some people. (= Some people are impossible to please.) OLTplease verb⇨ pleaseWebster's Third New International Dictionary, UnabridgedpleaseI. \ˈplēz\ verb(-ed/-ing/-s)Etymology: Middle English plesen, plaisen, from Middle French plaisir, from Latin placēre; akin to Old English flōh flat piece of stone, Old High German fluoh cliff, Old Norse flō layer, Latin placare to reconcile, placate, Greek plak-, plax flat surface, Lithuanian plakanas flat, and perhaps to Old English flōr floor — more at floorintransitive verb1. : to afford or give pleasure, delight, or agreeable satisfaction :be agreeable < the chief object of a play should be to please and entertain >2. : to feel the desire or inclination : like, want, wish < the fundamental American right to think as you please and say as you think — Archibald MacLeish > < an able man licensed by the times to do pretty much as he pleased — J.H.Hanford >3. archaic : to have the pleasure or kindness < stranger, please to taste these bounties — John Milton > < will you please to enter the carriage — Charles Dickens >transitive verb1. : to give pleasure to : make glad : gratify < pleased them by his hard work, his calm common sense — Beverly Smith >2. : placate, satisfy; specifically : to satisfy sexually3. : to be the will or pleasure of — used impersonally < many boys, please God, will make the venture — J.H.Wilson > < may it please your Majesty >4. archaic Scotland : to have or take pleasure in : like5. : to satisfy (oneself) in respect to something : behave in a manner satisfactory to (oneself) : suit < please yourself as to whether you go > < pleased himself by administering justice impatiently — R.A.Billington > < finding that the sources themselves were far from uniform, I have sometimes pleased myself — McGeorge Bundy >Synonyms: gratify, delight, rejoice, gladden, exhilarate, tickle, titillate, arride, regale: please indicates bringing happiness ranging from absence of discontent up to elation by something agreeing with one's wishes, tastes, or aspirations < pleased by the suggestion > < a guest pleased by the reception given him > < pleased by his son's choice of profession > gratify may suggest stronger although perhaps less long-lived satisfaction at or as if at some particular action or occasion < it gratified him to hear these gentlemen admire his fine stock — Willa Cather > < the notice … taken of her from the outset had gratified her — Robert Grant †1940 > < wished to gratify his son by these eulogies — George Meredith > delight applies to pleasing to the point of keenly felt and often vividly expressed intense transporting pleasure < a dinner party satisfying the highest standard of hospitality, namely, that every guest be seated between persons certain to delight him and sure to kindle his affection — Alan Gregg > < the emergency ferry established there so delighted the handsome young actor that he spent the whole first day of the ferry service riding back and forth — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > rejoice may suggest a joy marked by enthusiastic or festive happiness < of even deeper happiness springing from the stirring of those faculties through which man rejoices in knowledge — H.O.Taylor > gladden suggests bringing happiness that encourages or alleviates grief, dubiousness, or gloom < the comrades of the dead girl assemble in the temple on certain days to gladden her spirit with songs and dances — Lafcadio Hearn > < the springs which are under the earth and which break forth to refresh and gladden the life of flowers and the life of man — Laurence Binyon > exhilarate indicates a raising to a high pitch of joy, happiness, triumph, or euphoria, with all gloom or worry dispelled < realization affects people in one of two ways. It depresses them when they think how puny Man is against the Universe — or it exhilarates them when they consider his courage in attempting to conquer it — A.C.Clarke > < likely to brag a bit when exhilarated — S.H.Adams > tickle may suggest a pleasure physical sensation, one of tingling, thrilling, provoking laughs or chuckles or a comparable mental feeling < the idea of himself as a parson tickles him: he looks down at the black sleeve on his arm, and then smiles slyly — G.B.Shaw > < so tickled he'd have wagged a tail if he'd had one — F.B.Gipson > titillate indicates pleasing and also interesting or intriguing < titillated with something novel, flamboyant and sensational — C.E.Montague > < all this titillates our nerves: we think it exquisite, perfect — Irving Babbit > arride, now little used, may apply to what pleases, amuses, and calls forth laughter < merry jests such as used to arride our ancestors — William Hardman > regale suggests the large-scale entertainment or enjoyment of copious feasting < farmer's wives regale the workers with brandied cakes and scuppernong grape pies — American Guide Series: North Carolina>•- if you pleaseII. adverb1. — used as a function word to express politeness or emphasis in a request < any millionaires … will please skip the next few pages — Richard Joseph > < open the door, please >2. — used as a function word to express polite affirmation < would you like a martini? 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