[reporting verb]ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something 恳求,请求 [with obj. and infinitive]his friends entreated him not to go. 他的朋友们求他别走。 ■[with obj.]ask earnestly or anxiously for (something) 乞求给予 a message had been sent, entreating aid for the Navahos. 信息已发出,恳请给予纳瓦霍人援助。
[with obj. and adverbial](archaic)treat (someone) in a specified manner (古)对待 the King, I fear, hath ill entreated her. 恐怕国王虐待了她。
派生 entreatingly adverb 语源
late Middle English (in the sense 'treat, act towards (someone'); formerly also as intreat): from Old French entraitier, based on traitier 'to treat', from Latin tractare 'to handle'