遞給法院的正式文書
一樣是往上遞的書面請求，只是收件的一方換成法院，格式和用語都被法律規定死了。
petition to a court · noun · B2
An official letter to a court of law, asking for a legal case to be looked at.
訴狀 / 聲請書
核心畫面
A request handed upward. Someone without the power to make the change it down, asks someone who does have that power, and — often — collects other names to show they are not asking alone. The direction (from below, upward) and the formality (written, on the record) are what the whole word carries, whether the receiver is a government, a court, or a higher power.
可以想成：一份「往上遞」的請求。沒有權力做決定的人把要求寫下來，交給有權力的一方，而且常常再收集一堆簽名，表示不是他…更多收起
可以想成：一份「往上遞」的請求。沒有權力做決定的人把要求寫下來，交給有權力的一方，而且常常再收集一堆簽名，表示不是他一個人在講。整個字帶的就是這兩件事：方向是由下往上，形式是白紙黑字、留下紀錄。接收的一方可以是政府、法院，也可以是宗教裡的更高存在，語氣則隨場合從民間的連署一路正式到法律文書。From the picture
祈求
還是同一個「由下往上遞出請求」的畫面，只是往上遞到最高處——宗教場合裡的祈求，或給極高位者的呈請。
petition (prayer) · noun · B2
A formal prayer or serious request made to someone in power or to a higher power.
祈求 / 呈請
Also in this word
petition (signed request) · noun · B2
A written request signed by many people, asking someone in power to do or change something.
請願書 / 連署
petition (formal request) · verb · B2
To ask a government or an organization for something in a formal written way, usually with many people signing to show they want it too.
請願 / 連署要求
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。
petitionnoun/pəˈtɪʃ.ən/
- 1
A formal written request made by an individual or a group of people to a sovereign or political authority, often containing many signatures, soliciting some grace, right, mercy, or the redress of some wrong or grievance.
- We're looking to get 10,000 people to sign the petition to have the bird colony given legal protection.
- 2
lawA formal written application made to a magistrate or court for an order or a suit for divorce.
- 3
A prayer or supplication, especially of which is formal or humble and made to a deity, a sovereign, or an authority.
- a petition to aid
- a petition to God for courage and strength
petitionverb/pəˈtɪʃ.ən/
- 1
To make a petition to (a sovereign or political authority).
- The villagers petitioned the council to demolish the dangerous building.
- The company, appreciating the crippling affect ^([sic]) that this scheme will have on its activities unless the railway is diverted, has petitioned against the North Wales Hydro-Electric Power Bill at present before the House of Lords.
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。