supplication [ˌsʌplɪˈkeɪʃn]

例句:

• He raised his arms in a gesture of supplication.
  他举起双手，做祈求状。
  
• She knelt in supplication.
  她跪地祷求。
  
• The supplication touched him home.
  这个请求深深地打动了他.
  
• Nawab put his hands together in supplication.
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• She could feel a hundred flicks of his tongue, a dance of supplication, all over her skin.
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• At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication.
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