Implore & Beseech (續：請願 拒絕 棄權 單字大集合)

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–verb (used with object) 

1. to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go. 

2. to beg urgently or piteously for (aid, mercy, pardon, etc.): implore forgiveness.  



–verb (used without object) 

3. to make urgent or piteous supplication.



piteous

–adjective 

1. evoking or deserving pity; pathetic: piteous cries for help.  

 　

The sequence involves a multitude of running jokes, which simultaneously unfold at all distances from the camera; the only stable reference point is supplied by a waiter who rips his pants on the modern chairs and goes to hide behind a pillar. There he is implored by other waiters to lend them his clean towel, his untorn jacket, his shoes and his bowtie, until finally he is a complete mess, an exhibit of haberdashery mishaps.



haberdashery

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。指涉

。同意

。強調

。闡述

Evince



。請願

overture

an opening or initiating move toward negotiations, a new relationship, an agreement

overtures of [peace] 

a [shy] man who rarely made overtures of friendship. 

Bettie's life is heavily determined by her unguarded acceptance of [proposals] made by men during chance encounters. One such key [overture] is made on a beach by a black cop who [dabbles] in photography. 

The whole film feels too studied and calculated, including the symmetrical [overture] and [finale].

She [juggles] three beaus, [fends] off a lesbian's overtures and consults a shrink to determine if she's promiscuous or merely a lady with normal sexual appetites.

beseech 

Gyllenhaal's [beseeching] pale-eyed stare is more eloquent than his voiceover,

Keep us, we beseech Thee oh Lord, with Thy perpetual mercy.

"Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain this immoderate weather, with which we've had to contend."

Yes, he would desist. And those he loved, would they not show their love by beseeching him to desist?

implore

beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy, beseech, entreat

There he is [implored] by other waiters to lend them his clean towel

they [implore] him to interrupt Nixon, to bear down hard, to keep repeating questions until he gets an answer.

When Assistant Director Karl Rose implores Simon to [conduct] a clandestine assessment of firm director Mathias Jüst's mental health after rumors of [erratic] behavior begin to circulate in the German head office, the [shrewd] human resources worker forms a factory orchestra as a means of stealthily [gauging] the stability of his violin-playing subject. Later, a comprehensive investigation of company archives and [anonymous] letters begin to [snake] ominously back in time to the darkest days of World War II. 

I wake up and try to jump up, but I can't move. No sound comes out. I implore Allah to help me. As I'm praying, I hear loud laughter behind me. Then, I screamed.

Her [frazzled] nerves somehow calmed by the presence of the quiet new helper, Mme. Fouchécourt [implores] Mélanie to sit in on her recitals and become her personal page turner as she attempts to overcome her [debilitating] fear of failure. 



proffer

put before a person for acceptance, offer

Fortunately, his current frequency in film is not to be confused with repetition. The Ides of March proffered Gosling a [meatier] character role, and an unusually high fear factor.



。拒絕

rebuff

Along the way, he is [rebuffed] by skeptical officials at the American Embassy, 

Still, she repeatedly rebuffs Owen's [efforts] to help her and her [increasingly] bizarre behavior leads the imaginative Owen to suspect she's hiding an [unthinkable] secret.

rebut

Early in the movie Justin was [dumbstruck] when asked to rebut an [argument] in the speech class taught by Mr. Geary,

spurn 

reject, kick, rebuff

but he can't bear the thought of Dante [abandoning] him, so he acts like a spurned [girlfriend], unconsciously scheming to sabotage his pal's [impending] departure. 

Celestine picks her way through this [minefield] carefully, [spurning] the advances of all of the men until it's convenient for her. 

Light-skinned African-American Lelia Goldoni falls in love with a white man Anthony Ray, who [spurns] her when he meets the rest of her family.

One day, the woman learns that her legal spouse died. The refinery worker immediately proposes, but she spurns him in favor of another.

jilt

a woman who jilts a lover 

Many jilted [lovers] indulge in a bit of stalking, 

The second story explores the odd relationship between a female restaurant worker and another recently [jilted] police officer.

This time the setting is the annual Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Orpheus is a streetcar conductor; Eurydice has just jilted her [lover] and is attempting to escape his wrath. 

I don't want the whole county to find out that my daughter was jilted by anybody like you!

repudiate

reject as having no authority or binding force

Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw, does it bother you at all that your son repudiates so many of your controversial policies? No. He's his own person.



renege

The time is the 1950s: seedy Brooklyn private eye Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by shady Louis Cyphre to locate a pop singer who reneged [on] a debt.





。棄權

abdicate

renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, esp. in a formal manner

The latest [contender] for the director’s chair, recently abdicated David O. Russell, is School of Rock writer Mike White.

relinguish 

being compelled 

relinquish a [long]-cherished desire

Mueller said while Venice may have [relinquished] its potential Oscars-driver role to Toronto

As Greenberg, he’s really [blue]—a frightened man who won’t relinquish his pride.

renounce 

formally stating, a voluntary decision 

renounce [worldly] pleasures

has often been suspected of ambivalent attitudes towards the Roman Catholicism he has [renounced] and the God he has denied.

Refusing to confess to being in league with Satan and to [renounce] his "heretical" views, 

renouncing his separatist beliefs, his [oratories] begin embracing all races and cultures. During a 1965 speech, Malcolm X is [shot] and [killed], reportedly by Nation of Islam members.

abandon 

any further interest 

to abandon one's [efforts]



repeal

revoke

Then all your [privileges] will be revoked at once.


revocable

that may be revoked

The older Leo has never married, and as the story [winds] on, it becomes clear that his own infatuation [with] Marion [ir]revocably altered his life.

abrogate

abolish by formal or official means, annul by an authoritative act, repeal

rescind

abrogate, annul, revoke, repeal

invalidate by a later action or a higher authority

The rule was later changed again, in effect [rescinding] the prohibition. 

Surprisingly 3 of these were rescinded [upon] appeal, including Farr's legendary admission, and the only cut made [to] the film was the removal of a line of dialogue referring to an adolescent boy 'making the wrong choice'. 

















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