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pleadvt.
1. speak for,argue for,allege in support or favourof,defend为…发言，为…争辩，断言支持…，为…辩护。
△H.V.5.2.99: “Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms,/ Such as will enter at a lady’s ear,/ Andplead his love-suit to her gentle heart?”(Henry clev-erly asks Katharine to help him make his proposal ofmarriage.) 你可肯教给 一个军人怎样说话，才能进入小姐的耳朵，并且向她的芳心表明求爱之情？
△3H.VI.1.1. 103: “Ifnot,our swords shall plead it in the field.”否则，我们的刀剑就要在战场上为它而辩护了。
△R.III.4.4.415 (414):“Plead what I will be,not what I have been,/ Notmy deserts,but what I will deserve.”为我辩护时，只要提我将来要成为什么人，不要提我过去是什么人，不要说我现在就有应得之分，而要说我将来一定分所应得。
2. argue 主张。
△Gent.5.4.144:“Plead a new state inthy unrivalled merit，”为了你的无比的才德，我承认你该有一个新的身份。
3. put forward an argument of 提出…的论据。
△ 1H.VI.2.4. 29: “If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,/From off this brier pluck a white rose with me.”如果他认为我表明了真理，就请他跟我一起从这刺丛里摘下一朵白玫瑰。
～ vi. speak,argue 讲话，争辩。
△1H.VI.3.1.56: “Me-thinks his lordship (i. e. Winchester) should behumbler:/ It fitteth not a prelate so to plead.”我想主教大人也应该谦逊一些：一位高级教士这样讲话也有失身份。
△R .III.3.7.51 (52): “and if you plead as well forthem / As I can say nay to thee for myself.”只要你代表他们讲话，也像我代表自己向你说“不” 一样高明。 plead[pli:d]v.辩护，恳求，辩解
◇plead against sb.反驳某人
plead for sb.为某人辩护
plead for mercy恳求宽恕
‖ plead guilty招认，认罪，服罪
plead not guilty不服罪
plead the baby act以未达法定年龄为由取消所承担的责任
plead the fifth拒绝
pleading guilty by post用信件认罪
pleading in the alternative选择诉讼标的
pleadable adj.可辩护的，可作为抗辩理由的
pleader n.抗辩人，答辩人，申诉人
pleadings n.诉状，起诉，答辩（状），答辩书，申诉书 adj. 恳求的 |