• vt. 借口；為...辯護(hù)；托稱
• vi. 懇求；辯護(hù)

來自盎格魯法語pleder,來自古法語plaidier,申訴，來自拉丁語placitare,申訴，提起訴訟，來自placere,撫慰，安撫，使平靜，詞源同please,placate.引申諸相關(guān)詞義。

plead

plead: [13] Essentially plead and plea are the same word. Both go back ultimately to Latin placitum ‘something pleasant’, hence ‘something that pleases both sides’, ‘something agreed upon’, and finally ‘opinion, decision’. This was a noun formed from the past participle of placēre ‘please’ (source of English please). It passed into Old French as plaid ‘a(chǎn)greement, discussion, lawsuit’, and formed the basis of a verb plaidier, from which (via Anglo-Norman pleder) English got plead. In later Old French plaid became plait, and Anglo-Norman took it over as plai or ple – whence English plea [13].
=> plea, please

plead (v.)

mid-13c., "make a plea in court," from Anglo-French pleder, Old French plaidier, "plead at court" (11c.), from Medieval Latin placitare, from Late Latin placitum (see plea). Sense of "request, beg" first recorded late 14c. Related: Pleaded; pleading; pleadingly.

1. It was no defence to plead that they were only obeying orders.

辯稱他們只是在服從命令站不住腳。

來自柯林斯例句

2. They will plead with him to pull back from confrontation.

他們將請求他退出沖突。

來自柯林斯例句

3. He would plead the cause of Russian unity.

他會公開支持俄羅斯的統(tǒng)一。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Are you ready to plead against the case offered by the defendant?

你準(zhǔn)備好反駁辯護(hù)人提出的問題了 嗎 ?

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. He had a good lawyer to plead his case.

他請了一位出色的律師為自己的案子辯護(hù).

來自《簡明英漢詞典》