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/pliː/
A plea is a strong, often emotional request for something — "a plea for help." In court, a plea is also the formal answer a person gives about whether they are guilty or not guilty — "a guilty plea."
懇求；（法律）答辯
複數 pleas
原始詞典資料8 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。
pleanoun/pliː/
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An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
- Even if only one person answers my plea for someone to correspond with it will be a blessing.
- a plea for mercy
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An excuse; an apology.
- Necessity, the tyrant’s plea.
- No Plea must serve; ’tis cruelty to spare.
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That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
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lawThat which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
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lawAn allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
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lawThe defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
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lawA cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
- they or any three of them shall be a Court and have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed.
pleaverb/pliː/
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regionalTo plead; to argue.
- With my riches, my unhappiness was increased tenfold; and here, with another great acquisition of property, for which I had pleaed, and which I had gained in a dream, my miseries and difficulties were increasing.
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。