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To implore someone is to ask them for something with strong feeling, almost as if you might cry. You implore a person to help, to stop, to stay, or to forgive. It is heavier than ask and more emotional than request. You hear it in stories, speeches, and moments of real desperation. Though actually, in class students sometimes treat it as a fancy ask; the emotion is the whole point. You can implore a person, or implore them to do something. People almost always use it as a verb; a noun implore exists but is rare. It is serious, not playful begging for a snack.
懇求；哀求
組成From Latin implōrāre (also through French implorer): im- (here a strengthening prefix, “upon”) + plōrō (to cry out, to lament). So: to cry out to someone for help. The rare noun comes from the verb.
同家族的字
- deplorealso from Latin plōrāre, “to cry out”; to feel or say that something is very wrong
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
imploreverb/ɪmˈplɔː/
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To beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech.
- And giue me leaue, / And doe not ſay 'tis Superſtition, that / I kneele, and then implore her Bleſſing.
- But again, the Publican by his Confeſſion ſhevveth a piece of the higheſt vviſdom that a mortal Man can ſhevv; becauſe by ſo doing, he engageth as vvell as imploreth the Grace and Mercy of God to ſave him.
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To beg or plead that (someone) earnestly or urgently do something; to beseech, to entreat.
- Acquaint her vvith the danger of my ſtate, / Implore her, in my voice, that ſhe make friends / To the ſtrict deputie: […]
- And novv they ſhip their oars, and crovvn vvith vvine / The holy Goblet to the povv'rs divine: / Imploring all the Gods that reign above, / But chief, the blue-ey'd Progeny of Jove.
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Often followed by for (a thing) or of (a person): to express an earnest or urgent plea.
- That fortnight Rochester passed in intriguing and imploring.
- "Do not let me think of them too often, too much, too fondly," I implored; […]
implorenoun/ɪmˈplɔː/
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obsoleterareAn act of begging or pleading earnestly or urgently; an entreaty, an imploration or imploring, a plea.
- Suddenly out of his delightfull dreame / The man avvoke, and vvould haue queſtiond more; / But he vvould not endure that vvofull theame / For to dilate at large, but vrged ſore / VVith percing vvordes, and pittifull implore, / Him haſty to ariſe.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。