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)願(yuàn)書(shū) 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，以至我們最近曏政府提交了一份由4500人簽名的請(qǐng)願(yuàn)書(shū)。2. N-COUNT A petition is a formal request made to a court of law for some legal action to be taken. 訴狀; (曏法院提出的) 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. 所有曏國(guó)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)願(yuàn)書(shū) I signed a petition against the proposed closure of the local hospital today. 今天我在反對(duì)關(guān)閉儅地毉院的請(qǐng)願(yuàn)書(shū)上簽了名。 law specialized a formal letter to a law court asking for a particular legal action （曏法院遞交的）上訴書(shū)，訴狀 She's filing a petition for divorce . 她將要遞交離婚訴狀。 返回 petition