plea是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (法律) 抗辩; 恳求; 请求, 托词, 口实，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It reminds me,' said Evgenie Pavlovitch, laughing, 'of the famous plea of a certain lawyer who lately defended a man for murdering six people in order to rob them.
-- Now, in my opin-ion, the barrister who put forward this extraordinary plea was probably absolutely convinced that he was stating the most liberal, the most humane, the most enlightened view of the case that could possibly be brought forward in these days.
-- In another minute or two he would prob-ably have made up his mind to lead the prince quietly out of the room, on the plea of his being ill (and it was more than likely that the general was right in his belief that the prince WAS actually ill), but it so happened that destiny had some-thing different in store.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still I paced up and down, promising myself that every time should be the last, and breaking faith with myself on some new plea as often as I did so.
-- It would have been strange if the careless profligate, who was the butt of both, had been harassed by any such consideration; for his high opinion of his own merits and deserts rendered the project rather a laudable one than otherwise; and if he had been visited by so unwonted a guest as reflection, he would being a brute only in the gratification of his appetites have soothed his conscience with the plea that he did not mean to beat or kill his wife, and would therefore, after all said and done, be a very tolerable, average husband.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 291XX A Plea hen the newly-married pair came home, the first per-Wson who appeared, to offer his congratulations, was Sydney Carton.
-- Mon-sieur Gabelle had held the impoverished and involved estate on written instructions, to spare the people, to give them what little there was to give such fuel as the heavy credi-tors would let them have in the winter, and such produce as could be saved from the same grip in the summer and no doubt he had put the fact in plea and proof, for his own safety, so that it could not but appear now.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true that Fyodor Ryezunov's company did not plough over the ground twice before sowing, as had been agreed, justifying themselves on the plea that the time was too short.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Donwell was famous for its straw-berry-beds, which seemed a plea for the invitation: but no plea was necessary; cabbage-beds would have been enough to tempt the lady, who only wanted to be going somewhere.
-- When Emma afterwards heard that Jane Fairfax had been seen wandering about the meadows, at some distance from Highbury, on the afternoon of the very day on which she had, under the plea of being unequal to any exercise, so peremptorily refused to go out with her in the carriage, she could have no doubt putting every thing together that Jane was resolved to receive no kindness from her.
-- Miss Fairfax's recent illness had offered a fair plea for Mrs. Weston to invite her to an airing; she had drawn back and declined at first, but, on be-ing pressed had yielded; and, in the course of their drive, Mrs. Weston had, by gentle encouragement, overcome so much of her embarrassment, as to bring her to converse on the important subject.
-- She disapproved them, which ought to have been enough. My plea of concealing the truth she did not think sufficient. She was displeased; I thought unrea-sonably so: I thought her, on a thousand occasions, unnecessarily scrupulous and cautious: I thought her even cold.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Pumblechook and Mr. Hubble declined, on the plea of a pipe and ladies' society; but Mr. Wopsle said he would go, if Joe would.
-- As I declined the proposal on the plea of an appointment, he was so good as to take me into a yard and show me where the gallows was kept, and also where people were publicly whipped, and then he showed me the Debtors' Door, out of which culprits came to be hanged; heightening the interest of that dreadful portal by giving me to understand that "four on 'em" would come out at that door the day after to-morrow at eight in the morning, to be killed in a row.
-- He practised on her affection in that systematic way, that he got great sums of money from her, and he induced her to buy her brother out of a share in the brewery (which had been weakly left him by his father) at an immense price, on the plea that when he was her husband he must hold and manage it all.
-- After a time he would give up once more, on the plea that he had not got Cobbs's bill, or Lobbs's, or Nobbs's, as the case might be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I say nothing of his plea for claiming my confidence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew my society to be hum sought, and his plea might be that he regarded me in the light of a public character.
-- A Plea in the MarshalseaHaggard anxiety and remorse are bad companions to be barred up with.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor was very earnest in her application to her mother, relating all that had passed, her suspicions of Willoughby's inconstancy, urging her by every plea of duty and affection to demand from Marianne an account of her real situation with respect to him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The plea was that of a gaunt-faced man of about thirty, who looked the picture of privation and wretchedness.
-- As much as he longed to see Carrie, he knew she would be with some one and did not wish to intrude with his plea there.
-- All the while Hurstwood was endeavouring to formulate his plea in such a way that it would strike home and bring her into sympathy with him.
-- There was the tensity of fierceness in the man's plea which appealed deeply to her sympathies.
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