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plead

/pleed/US // plid //UK // (pliːd) //

恳求,辩护,辩护人,哀求

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v.无主动词 verb
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    plead·ed or pled [pled], /plɛd/, plead·ing.

    • : to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.
    • : to use arguments or persuasions, as with a person, for or against something: She pleaded with him not to take the job.
    • : to afford an argument or appeal: His youth pleads for him.
    • : Law. to make any allegation or plea in an action at law.to put forward an answer on the part of a defendant to a legal declaration or charge.to address a court as an advocate.Obsolete.to prosecute a suit or action at law.
v.有主动词 verb
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    plead·ed or pled [pled], /plɛd/, plead·ing.

    • : to allege or urge in defense, justification, or excuse: to plead ignorance.
    • : Law. to maintain by argument before a court.to allege or set forth formally in an action at law.to allege or cite in legal defense: to plead a statute of limitations.

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Examples

  • Su Bin eventually is extradited to the United States, pleads guilty to engaging in the hacking operations from 2008 to 2014, and is sentenced to 46 months in prison.

  • “We get on the local news station and plead with test providers to help us facilitate widespread testing,” Fischer said.

  • Doctors and nurses at Tijuana’s Hospital General pleaded for help in an open letter published on Facebook, saying they lack medication and equipment to treat patients, reports Cadena Noticias.

  • She pleaded guilty and was sentenced last year to two days in county jail and three years’ probation.

  • The father pleaded to be reunited with his partner and explained he did not want to be sent to Mexico without her, the complaint reads.

  • The camera passes to each hostage in turn to allow them to plead with the Lebanese government to let them live.

  • He did not plead guilty, and has regularly filed petitions in an effort to prove his innocence.

  • The news that Grimm was set to plead guilty sent shockwaves through the leadership of the Republican Party on Staten Island.

  • In all these cases, the students and even faculty members plead ignorance.

  • On Friday, many of the minors came back to plead to the residents that this was their only home.

  • Bernard stood there face to face with Mrs. Vivian, whose eyes seemed to plead with him more than ever.

  • Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes, manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive?

  • He will die of a broken heart, and will plead against me at the judgment-seat.

  • Put me in remembrance, and let us plead together: tell if thou hast any thing to justify thyself.

  • And the Duke of Wellington refused to plead for the Marshal, for he said "it was absolutely necessary to make an example."