plead是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 恳求， 请求； 为…辩护； 提出…为理由，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I plead guilty to the charge.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the prince's arrival he had made up his mind to plead business, and 'cut' the meal; which simply meant running away.
-- 'It's my turn, but I plead exemption,' said Ptitsin.
-- 'Do you know what, I had better not come at all tomor-row!I'll plead sick-list and stay away,' said the prince, with decision.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian pur-poses; that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing-gown, and nightcap; and that he had a cold upon him at that time.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- at length broke from his compressed and trembling lips; 'ay, and they bear the spirit of Christianity; what might be right and proper in a redskin, may be sinful in a man who has not even a cross in blood to plead for his ignorance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same court, in the same room, with the same bar, and the samepractitioners, but another judge, for there the Consistory judgecould plead any courtday as an advocate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have been rendered uneasy by what you said the other night, and can only plead that I have done all for the best that it is too late to retract, if I could (though I cannot) and that I hope to triumph yet.
-- Now, Nell had still the piece of gold sewn in her dress; and when she came to consider the lateness of the hour, and the somnolent habits of Mrs Jarley, and to imagine the state of consternation in which they would certainly throw that good lady by knocking her up in the middle of the night and when she reflected, on the other hand, that if they remained where they were, and rose early in the morning, they might get back before she awoke, and could plead the violence of the storm by which they had been overtaken, as a good apology for their absence she decided, after a great deal of hesitation, to remain.
-- In one day afterwards, the Grand Jury found a True Bill against Christopher Nubbles for felony; and in two days from that finding, the aforesaid Christopher Nubbles was called upon to plead Guilty or Not Guilty to an Indictment for that he the said Christopher did feloniously abstract and steal from the dwelling-house and office of one Sampson Brass, gentleman, one Bank Note for Five Pounds issued by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England; in contravention of the Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You do not plead guilty of stealing twenty-five hundred rubles?"
-- "And do you plead guilty to the charge of giving the merchant Smelkoff powders in his wine?"
-- "To that I plead guilty.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hindley threw it, hitting him on the breast, and down he fell, but staggered up immediately, breathless and white; and, had not I prevented it, he would have gone just so to the master, and got full revenge by letting his condition plead for him, intimating who had caused it.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had an impulse to kneel and plead for forgiveness.
-- I ought to give them three months, but I can plead health.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now Connie would sometimes plead a headache as an excuse for going up to her room after dinner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would always plead that she had this bit of work to begin first, or that bit of work to finish first; and would, of a certainty, scheme and plan not very cunningly, it would seem, for she deceived no one to dine alone.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My total ignorance of the connection must plead my apology.'
-- Lydia the humiliation, the misery she was bringing on them all, soon swallowed up every private care; and cov-ering her face with her handkerchief, Elizabeth was soon lost to everything else; and, after a pause of several minutes, was only recalled to a sense of her situation by the voice of her companion, who, in a manner which, though it spoke compassion, spoke likewise restraint, said, 'I am afraid you have been long desiring my absence, nor have I anything to plead in excuse of my stay, but real, though unavailing concern.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could only plead an ignorance of his own heart, and a mistaken confidence in the force of his engagement.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would plead until her anger would melt-- until she would forgive him.
-- Will you not give me one half- hour in which to plead my cause?"
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