| 词汇 | petitioned |
| 释义 | petitioned past simple and past participle ofpetition petition verb[ I or T ] uk /pəˈtɪʃ.ən/ us /pəˈtɪʃ.ən/ law also specialized to make a formal request for something, especially in a law court: （向法院）递交上诉书，上诉 They're petitioning for/about better facilities for disabled people.他们正在请愿，希望当局能为残疾人安装更好的设施。 [ + obj + to infinitive ]I think we should petition the government to increase the grant for the project.我认为我们应该请求政府增加对该项目的拨款。 She is petitioning for a re-trial.她将上诉要求重审。 Making appeals & requests adjuration appellate apply for something apply to appreciate ask a lot besiege car wash cry entreat entreaty imploringly importunately importunity invite invocation leech push scrounge ticket Examples of petitionedpetitioned In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It is unknown if the indigenous community prevailed in this case, but in any event it petitioned the state again just three years later. Unwilling to accept this change in legal status, the expatriate originaire community once again petitioned the administration. She is also petitioned by healers seeking cures for sick children. With population pressure rising, some residents petitioned to fill-in the palace moat and use that land for new construction. In other words, popular protest petitioned as much as it denounced, supplicated as much as it threatened. Faced with his non-paternity, he petitioned the court to curtail his financial obligation to the child. The minster clergy petitioned the bailiffs on her behalf for licence to enclose, but the bailiffs refused. Throughout the colonial period, railway workers petitioned for favorable postings and protested transfers to areas undesirable to them. A group of leading coffeemen and women petitioned his majesty once more to allow them to continue practising their trade. For example, a group of artisans petitioned the palace to complain about the amount of the contributions the commission was asking of them. The temporary nature of these measures led to heightened tensions within the commercial sector each time the expiry date approached and both sides petitioned the state for further action. These figures could represent important ancestors or perhaps are representations of deities who may have been petitioned, venerated, or de-animated through the practice of incense burning. In one of these cases two brothers petitioned the court, arguing that their elder brother had illegally sold a piece of ground, which they had bought 'jointly'. Instead, there seems to have been potent super-normal entities associated with natural phenomena, which may have been petitioned by some individuals as patrons of spiritual and political power. Unfortunately, the local people petitioned against the play area because they feared the presence of vandals and youths on motor cycles in the evenings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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