supplicants

英 [ˈsʌplɪkənts]

美 [ˈsʌpləkənts]

n.  (尤指向神灵或有权势者)恳求者，哀求者，祈求者
supplicant的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (向上帝或重要人物请求的)祈求者，恳求者，哀求者
  Asupplicantis a person who prays to God or respectfully asks an important person to help them or to give them something that they want very much.
  1. He flung himself down in the flat submissive posture of a mere supplicant.
     他以一个卑微的哀求者绝对谦恭的姿态猛地趴在地上。

双语例句

• If the crises in Greece and Italy tell us anything, it is that the European Union has tolerated widespread corruption, criminality and malign governance not just in supplicants from eastern Europe but in some of its core western European members.
  如果说希腊和意大利的危机给了我们什么启示的话，那就是欧盟（EU）放任了大面积的腐败、犯罪和治理不当，不但东欧的求援国如此，一些西欧的核心成员国亦是如此。
• They woo supplicants for the purpose of turning them down.
  这些学校吸引申请者的目的就是拒绝他们。
• In the authentication process, the nodes in the tree which interact with the supplicants are defined as the virtual authenticators. The authentication in the paper is based on these virtual authenticators.
  在认证过程中，树结构上与申请节点进行直接交互的节点被定义为虚拟认证者，文章中以虚拟认证者和树为基础对申请者实施认证。
• Hagen used the French doors and went directly out into the garden to where the supplicants clustered around the barrel of wine.
  黑根从法国式的门走了出去，径直向外面的花园走去，来到了聚集在酒桶周围的央求者的跟前。
• Spain and Italy are struggling with their debt crises and so have become supplicants.
  西班牙和意大利在债务危机中苦苦挣扎，只有求人的份。
• Above all, poor countries need to stop being permanent aid supplicants and become normal market economies: still poor, but able to engage with global markets, grow and diversify their economic base – and make intelligent decisions about their external finance.
  首先，贫困国家需要摆脱长期以来乞求援助的形象，而成为正常的市场经济体：仍然贫困，但能够参与全球市场，使其经济基础得到发展和多样化&并在外部融资问题上做出明智的决策。