plead

英 [pli?d] 美[plid]

GRECET6TEM8IELTS考研中低頻詞核心詞匯

第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù):?pleads;過(guò)去式:?pleaded;過(guò)去分詞:?pleaded;現(xiàn)在分詞:?pleading;

plead 請(qǐng)求，懇求，申辯，做辯護(hù)，找借口

來(lái)自盎格魯法語(yǔ)pleder,來(lái)自古法語(yǔ)plaidier,申訴，來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)placitare,申訴，提起訴訟，來(lái)自placere,撫慰，安撫，使平靜，詞源同please,placate.引申諸相關(guān)詞義。

plead: plead: [13] Essentially plead and plea are the same word. Both go back ultimately to Latin placitum ‘something pleasant’, hence ‘something that pleases both sides’, ‘something agreed upon’, and finally ‘opinion, decision’. This was a noun formed from the past participle of placēre ‘please’ (source of English please). It passed into Old French as plaid ‘a(chǎn)greement, discussion, lawsuit’, and formed the basis of a verb plaidier, from which (via Anglo-Norman pleder) English got plead. In later Old French plaid became plait, and Anglo-Norman took it over as plai or ple – whence English plea [13].
=> plea, please
plead (v.): mid-13c., "make a plea in court," from Anglo-French pleder, Old French plaidier, "plead at court" (11c.), from Medieval Latin placitare, from Late Latin placitum (see plea). Sense of "request, beg" first recorded late 14c. Related: Pleaded; pleading; pleadingly.

1. It was no defence to plead that they were only obeying orders.: 辯稱(chēng)他們只是在服從命令站不住腳。

2. They will plead with him to pull back from confrontation.: 他們將請(qǐng)求他退出沖突。

3. He would plead the cause of Russian unity.: 他會(huì)公開(kāi)支持俄羅斯的統(tǒng)一。

4. Are you ready to plead against the case offered by the defendant?: 你準(zhǔn)備好反駁辯護(hù)人提出的問(wèn)題了嗎 ?