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petition是什么意思

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0 a document signed by a large number of people demanding or asking for some action from the government or another authority -- 請願書
- I signed a petition against the proposed closure of the local hospital today. 今天我在反對關閉當地醫院的請願書上簽了名。
- She's filing a petition for divorce. 她將要遞交離婚訴狀。
1 to make a formal request for something, especially in a law court -- （向法院）遞交申訴書，申訴
- They're petitioning for/about better facilities for disabled people. 他們正在請願，希望當局能為殘障人士安裝更好的設施。
- [ + obj + to infinitive ] I think we should petition the government to increase the grant for the project. 我認為我們應該請求政府增加對該專案計劃的撥款。
- She is petitioning for a re-trial. 她將上訴要求重審。

The new tax was the source of considerable public indignation, with marches, rallies and petitions the order of the day throughout the country.
In his benevolent aspect he is the source of rain and hence petitioned to alleviate drought, and also to prevent meningitis.
They worked up petitions to parliament while engaging in some correspondence with each other.
In 1792 519 petitions were raised but forty-eight of them were institutional.
Eighty-three percent of the families included in this study were recruited from court records of petitions for divorce.
He signed petitions against slavery, was a bullionist and an underconsumptionist in his political economy, and yet he was no radical.
Furthermore, petitions, correspondence, surveys and communal accounts also survive sporadically for the villages that fell within the wider administrative district.
Litigation masters were required to possess the ability to write brilliantly for their petitions to stand out, being apparently worthy of trial, among countless documents.