entreat是什么意思，entreat怎么用
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📰 外刊例句
Some companies entreat employees to think of their organisation as a family. 一些公司恳求员工将他们的组织视为一个家庭。
—— 《经济学人》
—— 《纽约时报》
📖 基本释义
[verb] ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something
[动词] 热切或急切地请求某人做某事
💡 深入解读
从拼写上来看， entreat 一词比较好记，就是在熟词 treat 前面多加了一个前缀 en- （使成某种状态、致使……、使之如……、作成……）。从词源上来看， entreat 源自由前缀 en- +古法语traiter（对待）而来的古法语entraiter（对待），经英国法语entretier于14世纪进入英语后，最初也是用来表示以某种特定方式“对待、对付”，不过这一含义现已不再流行。但从这个概念出发，等到了15世纪初， entreat 开始发展出现在的主要含义指“恳求、乞求、请求”，常作正式用语使用，侧重指热切或急切地努力说服某人做某事或者克服某人的阻力，尤其是通过讨好对方
He entreated his estranged wife for another chance.他乞求分居妻子再给他一次机会。
He was accustomed to command, not to entreat.他习惯于发号施令，而不是恳求他人。
📚 名著用例
When a long way must yet be measured by my weary , trembling limbs before I could reach human habitation—when cold charity must be entreated before I could get a lodging: reluctant sympathy importuned, almost certain repulse incurred, before my tale could be listened to, or one of my wants relieved! 我得用疲乏颤抖的双腿走完很长的路，才能抵达有人烟的地方，我要恳求发点冷冷的慈悲，才能找到一个投宿之处；我要强求勉为其难的同情，而且多半还会遭人嫌弃，才能使人听听我的经历，满足我的需要。
— 出自《英国女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特（Charlotte Brontë）创作的具有自传色彩的长篇小说《简·爱》（ Jane Eyre ）。》
🔍 同近义词
- solicit: ask for or try to obtain (something) from someone
- beseech: ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat
- implore: beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something
