plea

súplica, ruego

Petición intensa y emotiva para que alguien ayude o haga algo.

En inglés sencillo: A strong, emotional request for help or for someone to do something.

• Nobody heard his plea for help.
• She ignored their pleas to stay.
• The mayor made an urgent plea for calm.

Cómo se usa: a plea for something (The family made a plea for information.); a plea to someone to do something (She made a plea to the council to save the park.)

Sinónimos: appeal, entreaty

Expresiones frecuentes: plea for help, desperate plea, emotional plea

excusa, justificación

Razón que alguien da para explicar o justificar lo que hizo o dejó de hacer.

En inglés sencillo: A reason someone gives to explain or excuse what they did or failed to do.

• Her plea of ignorance was rejected.
• He avoided the journey on the plea of poor health.
• They accepted illness as a plea for his absence.

Cómo se usa: on the plea of something (He missed the meeting on the plea of illness.)

Sinónimos: excuse, justification

Expresiones frecuentes: plea of ignorance, plea of illness, on the plea