petitions

英 [pəˈtɪʃnz]

美 [pəˈtɪʃnz]

n. 请愿书; 申诉书; 申请书; 祈祷; 祈求
v. 祈求; 请求; 请愿; (向法庭)请求，申请
petition的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

N-COUNT 请愿书
Apetitionis a document signed by a lot of people which asks a government or other official group to do a particular thing.
1. We recently presented the government with a petition signed by 4,500 people.
  最近我们向政府递交了有4,500人签名的请愿书。
N-COUNT 上诉；（对法庭的）请求
Apetitionis a formal request made to a court of law for some legal action to be taken.
1. His lawyers filed a petition for all charges to be dropped...
  他的律师提请撤销所有指控。
2. The court rejected their petition.
  法庭驳回了他们的上诉。
VERB 祈求；请求；请愿
If youpetitionsomeone in authority, you make a formal request to them.
1. ...couples petitioning for divorce...
  申请离婚的夫妇
2. All the attempts to petition the Congress had failed...
  所有向国会请愿的努力均告失败。
3. Twenty-five of his supporters petitioned him to restore the monarchy...
  他的拥护者中有25个人请求他复辟。
4. She's petitioning to regain custody of the child.
  她请求重获孩子的监护权。

It provoked 1,088 individual complaints, with the figure rising to 4,688 once petitions were taken into account.
这则广告引来1088个投诉电话，如果把请愿书也计算在内，投诉就达到了4688个之多。
A people's procuratorate or a people's court shall without delay handle the petitions filed by prisoners.
对于罪犯的申诉，人民检察院或者人民法院应当及时处理。
Next in the chart is the advertisement which drew the most individual complaints, not including petitions.
排行第二的广告是不包括请愿书在内、个人投诉最多的广告。
For more information on immigrant petitions, see the "Family" link to the right.
更多移民申请的信息，请看右面“家属”链接。
Receiving anti-dumping and countervailing petitions;
接收反倾销和反补贴的申请书；
Parliament foolishly rejected the American petitions.
英国国会则不智地驳回了美国人的请愿。
There are petitions to intervene, requirements for standing.
会有干预的请愿，起诉的要求。
Our petitions have been slighted.
我们的请愿白费唇舌。
Our petitions have been slighted. I'm not going to waste any more words on the subject.
我们的请愿白费唇舌。在这个问题上我不想多费唇舌了。
First of all I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions and thanksgiving be made for everyone.
首先我劝导众人，要为一切人恳求、祈祷、转求和谢恩。