petition
n. 请愿书; 请愿,请求; 上诉状
vi. 祈求,请求; 请愿
vt. (向法庭)申诉
A petition is a document signed by a lot of people which asks a government or other official group to do a particular thing.
We recently presented the government with a petition signed by 4,500 people.
最近我们向政府递交了有4,500人签名的请愿书。
A petition is a formal request made to a court of law for some legal action to be taken.
His lawyers filed a petition for all charges to be dropped...
他的律师提请撤销所有指控。
The court rejected their petition.
法庭驳回了他们的上诉。
If you petition someone in authority, you make a formal request to them.
...couples petitioning for divorce...
申请离婚的夫妇
All the attempts to petition the Congress had failed...
所有向国会请愿的努力均告失败。
1. a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
2. reverent petition to a deity
1. write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing
plead, appeal, beg, petition, entreat, pray
这些动词均含"请求,恳求"之意。
They began to petition the queen.
他们开始企求女王.
Thousands of citizens subscribed the petition.
几千名公民在请愿书上签名.
Will be add his name to this petition?
他会在这请愿书上签名 吗 ?
After the strike ended, the creditors said they would withdraw the liquidation petition.
罢工结束后, 债权人表示他们将撤销清算申请.
The government received a petition which bore nearly five thousand signatures.
政府收到一份下面有近五千人签名的请愿书.