核心畫面
You can picture 'please' as the act of giving someone a small pleasure — making them feel happy or satisfied. The verb 'to please someone' is the bare engine; the famous polite word 'please' is just this engine folded into a request: literally 'do this, may it please you', a short way of saying 'if it pleases you to'. So every use circles back to one move: putting the other person's pleasure at the centre.
可以把 please 想成「給對方一點愉快」——讓人覺得開心、滿意。動詞 please（取悅某人）是最原始的核心；而…更多收起
可以把 please 想成「給對方一點愉快」——讓人覺得開心、滿意。動詞 please（取悅某人）是最原始的核心；而我們天天掛在嘴邊那個禮貌的 please，其實就是把這個核心摺進請求裡：本來是「請做這件事，但願這讓你也樂意」的縮寫。所以無論是禮貌的「請」還是「隨你高興」，骨子裡都繞著「把對方的愉快放在中心」這個動作打轉。原始詞典資料7 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。
pleaseverb詞源 1/pliːz/
- 1
To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
- Her presentation pleased the executives.
- I'm pleased to see you've been behaving yourself.
- 2
To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
- Just do as you please.
- He doesn't think, he just says whatever he pleases.
pleaseadv詞源 2/pliːz/
- 1
Used to make a polite request.
- Please, pass the bread.
- Would you please sign this form?
pleaseintj詞源 2/pliːz/
- 1
Used as an affirmative to an offer.
- Near-synonym: thank you
- May I help you? —(Yes,) please.
- 2
An expression of annoyance, impatience, or exasperation.
- Oh, please, do we have to hear that again?
- So it's safe to let a 10-year-old use a gun? Please.
- 3
An expression of annoyance, impatience, or exasperation.
- Near-synonyms: enough, enough already, that's enough, no more, cut it out, knock it off, shut up, STFU
- Please with that damn harmonica!
pleaseintj詞源 3/pliːz/
- 1
Said as a request to repeat information.
- Customer while ordering: Can I get a [unintelligible]? Restaurant employee: Please?
- Fellow: May I have a few days off to get married? Reply, in the Cincinnati idiom by a boss who had heard the sound but not the sense: Boss: Please?
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。