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

• 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 door of grace is always open for her petitions, and they never return empty-handed.
  恩典之门总为她的恳求而开，恳求者也永不空手而归。
• We will hear petitions this afternoon.
  我们今天下午才接受陈情。
• 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。
• Your school will probably have an office that reviews transfer credit petitions on a weekly basis.
  你的学校应该有一个办公室负责每周的学分兑换申请。
• The marriage has broken down and the wife petitions for divorce.
  婚姻已破裂，妻子申请离婚。
• 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。
• The study looked at 200 unreasonable behaviour petitions filed by women.
  这份调查研究了200起由妇女提出的因不可理喻行为而离婚的诉状。
• ( 13) To handle petitions and complaints.
  （十三）处理请愿，申诉事项。
• 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。