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发表于 2009-2-25 02:44:25
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beseech
\bi-SEECH\, verb
beseech, besought or beseeched, beseeching:
to ask earnestly; implore
1. 恳求;哀求[(+for)][O2]
He besought the judge to show mercy.
他央求法官宽恕。
2. 乞求,急切地要求得到
beseech an audience
急切请求一次晋见机会
In this purgatory, the narrator feels threatened by more recent emigres who beseech him for help and force him to face the hard fact of his own displacement.
~Laura Winters, Moscow on the Thames, New York Times, January 5, 1997
"Spare your poor children these vulgarities, I beseech you," his wife might protest, to hone her point that he was not a gentleman.
~Peter Matthiessen, Bone by Bone
c 1175, Old English bisecen "to beseech, beg urgently," from be- + Middle English secen "to seek"
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
~Helen Keller
爱像一朵美丽的无法触摸的花儿,但是它的芬芳却依然可以使得花园温馨欢愉。
——海伦·凯勒
What starts with a T, ends with a T, and is full of T?
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