petition [ pi'tiʃən] n.请愿 vt.向…请愿
petition [ pi'tiʃən] n．请愿，请愿书
申诉权 right of petition
election petition 选举呈请；选举呈请书
Legislative Council (Election Petition) Rules [134 of 1997] 《立法会（选举呈请）规例》〔1997年第134号〕
petition 呈请；呈请书；质询书；请愿书
respondent to a petition 呈请书的答辩人；质询书的答辩人
withdraw a petition 撤回呈请书；撤回质询书
bankruptcy petition 要求宣布破产
They signed a petition in support of the workers' demands.
他们在请愿书上签名，支持工人的请求。
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life, Witness the fact that in the Lord's prayer the first petition is for daily bread, No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stoach.
Woodrow Wilson. American President
生活包括精神生活的基础。不容置疑的事实是，在主祷文中向上帝祈求的第一件事是让我们天天有面包。没有人能饿着肚子敬奉上帝或热爱他的邻居。
美国总统威尔逊W.
petition n.请愿;祈求;陈请书
呈 [chéng] /to assume (a form)/to submit/to petition/to show/to present/to offer/
呈文 [chéng wén] /petition (submitted to a superior)/
请愿 [qǐng yuàn] /petition (for action to be taken)/
请愿书 [qǐng yuàn shū] /petition/
{adj: petitionary} of the nature of or expressing a petition
"the petitionary procedure had a quality of indecisiveness"
{n: abhorrer} a signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of parliament were condemned and abhorred
{n: decree nisi} a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; becomes absolute at some later date
{n: freedom of assembly} the right peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances; guaranteed by the 1st amendment to the US constitution
{n: memorial} a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority
{n: prayer, petition, orison} reverent petition to a deity
{n: prayer, supplication} the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)
"the priest sank to his knees in prayer"
{n: presenter} someone who presents a message of some sort (as a petition or an address or a check or a memorial etc.)
{n: recall} the act of removing an official by petition
{n: request, petition, postulation} a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
{n: seconder} someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote
{n: suer, petitioner} someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right
{n: suit} a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
{v: deny} refuse to grant, as of a petition or request
"The dean denied the students' request for more physics courses"
"the prisoners were denied the right to exercise for more than 2 hours a day"
{v: petition} write a petition for something to somebody ; request formally and in writing
{v: solicit} make a solicitation or petition for something desired
"She is too shy to solicit"
{v: supplicate} make a humble, earnest petition
"supplicate for permission"
{v: verify} attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition)
So before you see how far you can get this summer on your short vacation leash, take a trip to Escapemag.com and sign a petition.
不管今年夏天你准备怎样利用短短的假期，请先访问一下 Escapemag.com ，在请愿书上签个名。
At the height of World War I, he risked the Kaiser's anger by signing an antiwar petition, one of only four scientists in Germany to do so.
在一次世界大战激战正酣之际，他冒冒怒德国皇帝的危险在一份反战请愿书上签了名。
The petitioning began last month when some 60 former diplomats and officials urged the committee to reject Mr. Bolton, who they said consistently opposed efforts to improve U.S. national security through arms control.
上个月，大约60名前外交官和官员敦促外交关系委员会驳回博尔顿的提名。他们说，博尔顿一贯反对通过军备控制来改善美国国家安全的努力。
Over the next three years, he says the campaign hopes to gather millions of signatures through an online petition in support of the Convention. He says the signatures will be presented to the United Nations as a rallying call for it to begin negotiations on a Framework Convention on the Right to Water.
利霍塔尔说，在今后三年时间里，将通过这个运动在网络上就支持制订这样一项公约征集数百万个签名。他说，这些签名将被递交给联合国，用以呼吁它就制订一部用水权利框架公约开始进行协商。
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