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prithee

/prith-ee/US // ˈprɪð i //UK // (ˈprɪðɪ) //

祈求,祈祷,恳请,恳求

Definitions

interj.感叹词 interjection
  1. 1

    Archaic.

    • : please: used to politely introduce a request or command: Prithee, let us come inside.

Examples

  • Prithee, now, how many such butterflies as you suck here together on the thistle-head of royalty?

  • Well go in the coach, said my father—Prithee, have the arms been altered, Obadiah?

  • Prithee tell me what sort of man this Arnold really is, for I do not depend on the partial representations I have had of him.

  • You went into the country to recover your health, I thought; prithee, how comes this new husband into your way?

  • Then, after a little while, he said: "I prithee tell me, didst thou see a knight pass this way to-day or yesterday?"