petitioning

英 [pəˈtɪʃnɪŋ]

美 [pəˈtɪʃnɪŋ]

v.  祈求; 请求; 请愿; (向法庭)请求，申请
petition的现在分词

现在分词：petitioning　

COCA.46416

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。

双语例句

• Officials briefly detained Mr Luo and the head teacher of another condemned migrants'school to prevent them petitioning higher authorities.
  为了防止他们串联把事情闹大，官员们扣留了罗校长和一位来自另一所农民工子弟学校的教师。
• Namely, that I don't feel comfortable petitioning for specific things from God, because that feels to me like a kind of weakness of faith.
  亦即，为特定的事向神请愿，使我觉得别扭，因为我感觉这种信仰很软弱。
• Mrs hall announced that she was petitioning for a divorce.
  霍尔夫人宣布她正在提出离婚诉讼。
• I reminded the committee that we were petitioning for the guarantee of a loan.
  我提醒委员会，我们恳请要得到一笔贷款的保证。
• Even before it is clear how things are going to work inside the Shanghai zone, other cities such as Tianjin, Qingdao and Wuhan have started petitioning the central government to set up their own free-trade zones.
  甚至在上海自贸区内部运营机制明确之前，天津、青岛和武汉等其他城市就已开始向中央政府申请设立自己的自贸区。
• A court official apologized to Huugjilt's sobbing parents, who had been petitioning judicial authorities since 2006 to re-try the case, state media reported.
  国家媒体报道，法院一名官员向呼格吉勒图啜泣的父母道歉，他们从2006年起就一直向司法机关请愿要求重审案件。
• We're petitioning for our right to keep a school in our village.
  我们为在村中保留一所学校这一权利进行请愿。
• The NVC will contact the person for whom you are petitioning ( beneficiary) concerning further immigrant visa processing steps.
  签证中心将联系被申请人，以完成移民签证的步骤。
• The photo shows news coverage of a delegation from Overseas Chinese organizations in Europe petitioning a meeting of the Nine Convention Countries to impose sanctions against the Japanese aggressors.
  图为欧洲华侨组织代表团向九国公约会议请愿、求制裁侵略者的新闻报道。
• She's petitioning to regain custody of the child.
  她请求重获孩子的监护权。