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beseeching

/bih-seech/US // bɪˈsitʃ //UK // (bɪˈsiːtʃ) //

恳求,求助,祈求,恳请

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v.有主动词 verb
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    be·sought or be·seeched, be·seech·ing.

    • : to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.
    • : to beg eagerly for; solicit.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    be·sought or be·seeched, be·seech·ing.

    • : to make urgent appeal: Earnestly did I beseech, but to no avail.

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Examples

  • He was among those beseeching Cain to accept the word of his superiors.

  • Every hour, the anthem is played, followed by Orthodox priests intoning prayers and beseeching God not to forsake Ukraine.

  • The stranger swallows their insults, and casts toward the bridegroom a beseeching glance.

  • And his glance, anxious and beseeching, sought the Nabob, as though to demand his pardon for all these paradoxical impertinences.

  • Her voice broke again upon the stillness, with a thrill in it of renewed beseeching.

  • As censor, instead of beseeching the gods to increase the glory of the State, he begged them to preserve it.

  • Then she made her appeal in French, using every beseeching word she knew to get him to return it.