Petition

(verb.) write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing.

艾伯特整理

• He told me he had promised the Bishop to sign some kind of a petition against divorce. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Know that a petition was presented to the King and Queen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Shortly after, the petition of the Massachusetts Assembly was taken up for examination before the privy council. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Monseigneur, a petition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It is Defarge whom you see here, who, at the hazard of his life, darted out before the horses, with the petition in his hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Finding that they would hearken to no terms of accommodation, he laid his petition before the council. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I have one other petition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Always petitions! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• There were juvenile letters and petitions from Rebecca, too, in the collection, imploring aid for her father or declaring her own gratitude. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I don't suppose such vicarial piety will avail much, but the petitions come out of a sincere breast, from innocent lips. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He was alone, examining some petitions lately presented. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Go patter thy petitions to heaven, said the fierce Norman, for we on earth have no time to listen to them. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Oh, I know,' said Sam; 'them as hangs up in the linen-drapers' shops, with beggars' petitions and all that 'ere upon 'em? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I laid it in your desk with a prayer: I must indeed be a sinner: Heaven will not hear the petitions that come warmest from my heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Mary petitioned for the use of the library at Netherfield; and Kitty begged very hard for a few balls there every winter. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• They are generally obliged, therefore, to content themselves with petitioning for certain encouragements to exportation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Now, too, she was not always petitioning to drink. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mr. Hartright is petitioning for some more music, and he wants it, this time, of the lightest and liveliest kind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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