3. VERB 为…辩护;维护;声援 If you plead the case or cause of someone or something, you speak out in their support or defence.
- He appeared before the Committee to plead his case...他出现在委员会面前为自己辩护。
- He would plead the cause of Russian unity.他会公开支持俄罗斯的统一。
4. VERB 提出…为理由;把…作为借口 If you plead a particular thing as the reason for doing or not doing something, you give it as your excuse.
- Mr Burke, pleading poverty, changed his mind...伯克先生以自己穷为由改变了主意。
- Mr Giles pleads ignorance as his excuse...贾尔斯先生把不知情当作自己的借口。
- 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。
沒有留言:
張貼留言