petition

柯林斯詞典

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
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。
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。