2009년 8월 4일 화요일

Dic: plead for/to/with (someone or something)

plead for someone: to beg for someone to be spared.

  • Tom pleaded for Dave, but it was no use. Dave was found guilty
  • She pleaded for her husband, but the judge sentenced him to ten years in prison.
plead for something: to beg for something.
  • I don't want to have to plead for what's already mine
  • The children were pleading for ice cream, so we got some for them.
plead with someone: to beg something of someone; to make an emotional appeal to someone.
  • Do I have to plead with you to get you to do it? 
  • You can plead with me as much as you want. I won't permit you to go.
plead guilty to something: to state that one is guilty of a crime before a court of law.
  • Gerald refused to plead guilty to the crime and had to stand trial
  • Max pleaded guilty to the charge and then fled town.
plead to something: to enter an admission of guilt to a specific crime.

  • Max pleaded to the lesser charge of larceny. 

... McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs,

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