柯林斯詞典petition /p??t???n/ (petitioning,petitioned,petitions) 1. N-COUNT A petition is a document signed by a lot of people that asks a government or other official group to do a particular thing. 請(qǐng)?jiān)笗?/p> People feel so strongly that we recently presented the government with a petition signed by 4,500 people. 人們感受如此強(qiáng)烈，以至我們最近向政府提交了一份由4500人簽名的請(qǐng)?jiān)笗?/p>2. N-COUNT A petition is a formal request made to a court of law for some legal action to be taken. 訴狀; (向法院提出的) 申請(qǐng)[法律] His lawyers filed a petition for all charges to be dropped. 他的律師們提出申請(qǐng)要求撤銷所有指控。3. V-T/V-I If you petition someone in authority, you make a formal request to them. 正式請(qǐng)求[法律] ...couples petitioning for divorce. …申請(qǐng)離婚的幾對(duì)夫婦。 All the attempts to petition Congress had failed. 所有向國會(huì)提出請(qǐng)求的努力都已失敗了。 返回 petition劍橋詞典a document signed by a large number of people demanding or asking for some action from the government or another authority 請(qǐng)?jiān)笗? I signed a petition against the proposed closure of the local hospital today. 今天我在反對(duì)關(guān)閉當(dāng)?shù)蒯t(yī)院的請(qǐng)?jiān)笗虾灹嗣? law specialized a formal letter to a law court asking for a particular legal action （向法院遞交的）上訴書，訴狀 She's filing a petition for divorce . 她將要遞交離婚訴狀。 返回 petition