petition

柯林斯詞典

1. N-COUNT A petition is a document signed by a lot of people that asks a government or other official group to do a particular thing. 請願書
People feel so strongly that we recently presented the government with a petition signed by 4,500 people. 人們感受如此強烈，以至我們最近曏政府提交了一份由4500人簽名的請願書。
2. N-COUNT A petition is a formal request made to a court of law for some legal action to be taken. 訴狀; (曏法院提出的) 申請[法律]
His lawyers filed a petition for all charges to be dropped. 他的律師們提出申請要求撤銷所有指控。
3. V-T/V-I If you petition someone in authority, you make a formal request to them. 正式請求[法律]
...couples petitioning for divorce. …申請離婚的幾對夫婦。
All the attempts to petition Congress had failed. 所有曏國會提出請求的努力都已失敗了。