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v. 请求

  1. They were reduced to begging or starving.
    他们穷得不行乞便挨饿。
  2. I beg leave to address the Council.
    我请求允许向议会发表演说。


begging
[ noun ]
a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
<noun.communication>


Beg \Beg\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Begged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Begging}.] [OE. beggen, perh. fr. AS. bedecian (akin to
Goth. bedagwa beggar), biddan to ask. (Cf. {Bid}, v. t.); or
cf. beghard, beguin.]
1. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to
beseech.

I do beg your good will in this case. --Shak.

[Joseph] begged the body of Jesus. --Matt. xxvii.
58.

Note: Sometimes implying deferential and respectful, rather
than earnest, asking; as, I beg your pardon; I beg
leave to disagree with you.

2. To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or
from house to house.

Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his
seed begging bread. --Ps. xxxvii.
25.

3. To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to
grant a favor.

4. To take for granted; to assume without proof.

5. (Old Law) To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso
to havo a guardian appointed for.

Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.
--Harrington.
Hence:

{To beg (one) for a fool}, to take him for a fool.

{I beg to}, is an elliptical expression for I beg leave to;
as, I beg to inform you.

{To beg the question}, to assume that which was to be proved
in a discussion, instead of adducing the proof or
sustaining the point by argument.

{To go a-begging}, a figurative phrase to express the absence
of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price;
as, grapes are so plentiful there that they go a-begging.

Syn: To {Beg}, {Ask}, {Request}.

Usage: To ask (not in the sense of inquiring) is the generic
term which embraces all these words. To request is
only a polite mode of asking. To beg, in its original
sense, was to ask with earnestness, and implied
submission, or at least deference. At present,
however, in polite life, beg has dropped its original
meaning, and has taken the place of both ask and
request, on the ground of its expressing more of
deference and respect. Thus, we beg a person's
acceptance of a present; we beg him to favor us with
his company; a tradesman begs to announce the arrival
of new goods, etc. Crabb remarks that, according to
present usage, ``we can never talk of asking a
person's acceptance of a thing, or of asking him to do
us a favor.'' This can be more truly said of usage in
England than in America.

  1. The importance _ and difficulty _ of fund raising is not lost on Heath, who offered this simple assessment during a trip to Washington seeking political action committee support: "You're just sort of shamelessly begging.
  2. Deteriorating economic conditions have forced women to turn to begging, prostitution and other "quasi-legal and illicit activities" in India, Peru and several African nations, according to a UNICEF study.
  3. "The officer fell to the ground and as he was laying on the ground, begging the suspect not to shoot at him anymore, the suspect fired again," he said.
  4. Here were customers begging to buy from us.
  5. First, a judge said begging in subways and terminals was OK; then a court said beggars could be banned. Everything had changed for these panhandlers and everything was still the same.
  6. Earlier this month, a federal appeals court threw out a lower court's ruling that had held that begging was a constitutionally protected form of speech.
  7. Growers are begging members of Congress to reopen the borders.
  8. He begins by speaking of his love for his family and begging their forgiveness for "the unforgivable act of taking my own life."
  9. Within two weeks, five eggs hatched and the baby birds began begging for food.
  10. A partially deaf boy found wandering the streets more than eight months ago traveled 700 miles across Mexico to escape a life of erratic meals and begging, welfare officials say.
  11. Europeans older than 50 can still remember digging makeshift homes out of the rubble, eating dogs and cats, begging GIs for chocolate bars.
  12. I think it was my begging that got me the job." "Working Girl," a spring tryout series, is based on the hit comedy movie starring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver.
  13. But it also will provide more older candidates for the jobs De Vita sees going begging because of the decline in the number of young workers.
  14. In that context, a group like 2 Live Crew, with its brutal street verses and artless performances, seems almost to be begging for the abrogation of its free-speech rights.
  15. It said state enterprises have far more than enough jobs going begging in Gdansk province at equal or higher pay.
  16. Alpo says many pet owners lack the self-control to refuse a begging animal more food, and yet don't have time to walk their pets.
  17. U.S. District Judge Leonard Sand made the statement during a hearing in a lawsuit that challenges the prohibition on begging as a violation of the constitutional rights of homeless and needy people.
  18. This will lead to much higher expenditure on temporary housing and to a rapid growth in street begging.
  19. The foreign exchange rights went begging.
  20. Politicians say they can't live without television but gripe that high TV advertising rates force them to spend too much time begging for money from fat cats.
  21. "The producers always want us in uniform, and Melanie and I are always begging not to wear those scratchy things," Arthur said. "On the last show we did we said we wanted to wear our pretty dresses.
  22. Autograph books are carried like begging bowls.
  23. Jackson also supported a recent proposal to ban begging, although backers of the idea now propose to make begging a crime only when the panhandler accosts someone.
  24. Jackson also supported a recent proposal to ban begging, although backers of the idea now propose to make begging a crime only when the panhandler accosts someone.
  25. No longer just a night for hordes of weird-looking kids begging for handouts, Halloween has been discovered by adults.
  26. I'm flattered to be here and have these artifacts on display." He donned the fedora for begging photographers, playfully flipped up the bill, and answered all the usual movie-star questions.
  27. But by operating in the way it did, says Mr Rodgers, the Commission had failed to send the signal that countries could never come back with a begging bowl if a steelmaker gets into trouble.
  28. Today, Mr. Bloomberg is begging Merrill to let him break the covenant.
  29. Don't you hear your baby begging for his life?"' Patients inside shied away from the clinic's windows and whispered among themselves.
  30. On Thursday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a ban on begging in the subway system is constitutional because panhandlers don't convey a social or political message.
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