pleads
v.
恳求，请求( plead的第三人称单数 );
提出…为借口[理由];
（向法庭）陈述案情;
（在法庭）申辩，认罪，辩护;
例句:
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Nguyen Van Hai pleads guilty and is spared imprisonment.
来自BBC
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Bob Levinson pleads for help from a makeshift cell.
来自VOA
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He pleads for sanity in a lunatic world.
他祈求在这混乱的世界里仍能保持头脑清明。
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Mr Giles pleads ignorance as his excuse.
贾尔斯先生把不知情当作自己的借口。
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My client pleads guilty, M'lud.
法官大人，我的当事人认罪。
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They all seemed slightly pale and alarmed by her pleads.
来自WSJ