• vt. 借口；为...辩护；托称
• vi. 恳求；辩护

来自盎格鲁法语pleder,来自古法语plaidier,申诉，来自拉丁语placitare,申诉，提起诉讼，来自placere,抚慰，安抚，使平静，词源同please,placate.引申诸相关词义。

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 ‘agreement, 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.

辩称他们只是在服从命令站不住脚。

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2. They will plead with him to pull back from confrontation.

他们将请求他退出冲突。

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3. He would plead the cause of Russian unity.

他会公开支持俄罗斯的统一。

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4. Are you ready to plead against the case offered by the defendant?

你准备好反驳辩护人提出的问题了 吗 ?

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5. He had a good lawyer to plead his case.

他请了一位出色的律师为自己的案子辩护.

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