plea

supplique, appel

Demande forte et chargée d’émotion pour obtenir de l’aide ou pousser quelqu’un à agir.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : 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.)

Synonymes : appeal, entreaty

Expressions courantes : plea for help, desperate plea, emotional plea

excuse, prétexte

Raison donnée pour expliquer ou justifier ce qu’on a fait ou omis de faire.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : on the plea of something (He missed the meeting on the plea of illness.)

Synonymes : excuse, justification

Expressions courantes : plea of ignorance, plea of illness, on the plea