petitions

英 [pəˈtɪʃnz]

美 [pəˈtɪʃnz]

n.  请愿书; 申诉书; 申请书; 祈祷; 祈求
v.  祈求; 请求; 请愿; (向法庭)请求，申请
petition的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 请愿书
  Apetitionis a document signed by a lot of people which asks a government or other official group to do a particular thing.
  1. 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。
• N-COUNT 上诉；（对法庭的）请求
  Apetitionis a formal request made to a court of law for some legal action to be taken.
  1. His lawyers filed a petition for all charges to be dropped...
     他的律师提请撤销所有指控。
  2. The court rejected their petition.
     法庭驳回了他们的上诉。
• VERB 祈求；请求；请愿
  If youpetitionsomeone in authority, you make a formal request to them.
  1. ...couples petitioning for divorce...
     申请离婚的夫妇
  2. All the attempts to petition the Congress had failed...
     所有向国会请愿的努力均告失败。
  3. Twenty-five of his supporters petitioned him to restore the monarchy...
     他的拥护者中有25个人请求他复辟。
  4. She's petitioning to regain custody of the child.
     她请求重获孩子的监护权。

双语例句

• It did not pass unremarked that three-quarters of the petitions were instituted by women.
  3/4的请愿都是由女性发起的，这一点引起了大家的关注。
• The issues being litigated in direct appeals and habeas petitions would no longer have to be decided by the California Supreme Court.
  直接上诉和人身保护上诉里提出的诉讼问题将不再由加利福尼亚最高法院解决。
• The NVC processes all approved immigrant visa petitions that require consular action.
  国务院签证中心（NVC）处理所有需要领事馆办理的已被批准的移民申请。
• Malaysians had launched online petitions to pressure the paper to apologise, while many politicians also criticised the publication.
  马来西亚人民曾在网络上发起请愿，向《每日新闻报》施加压力让其道歉，很多政治官员也对该报刊登的内容表示批评。
• The increased number of cases in recent decades largely reflects petitions that target multiple source countries;
  近十年来，数量骤增的反倾销案件主要表现为针对多个来源国提起的申诉。
• For more information on immigrant petitions, see the "Family" link to the right.
  更多移民申请的信息，请看右面“家属”链接。
• Send it all& chain letters, jokes, and petitions.
  把他们都发出去吧&不管是连锁信，笑话，还是诉状等。
• Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
  然而，我们屡次的吁请，结果所得到的答复却只是屡次的侮辱。
• Our petitions have been slighted. She was white to the lips.
  我们的请愿白费唇舌。小福子连嘴唇全白了。
• It provoked 1,088 individual complaints, with the figure rising to 4,688 once petitions were taken into account.
  这则广告引来1088个投诉电话，如果把请愿书也计算在内，投诉就达到了4688个之多。