释义 |
entreatyen‧trea‧ty /ɪnˈtriːti/ noun (plural entreaties) [countable, uncountable]  - After repeated entreaties, the White House finally agreed to try one.
- Despite denials, she persists in her entreaties.
- His life was meaningless without Coleen, she had not replied to his entreaties so he would end it all.
- I found him hostile to my entreaties.
- Such entreaties to passing travellers were not infrequent in lonely country at the time.
- These entreaties, though modified, come in a direct line from the prophets of the Old Testament.
- Thus, year after year, working people turn a deaf ear to union entreaties.
formal a serious request in which you ask someone to do something for you |