plea

懇願、訴え

助けを求めたり、何かをしてもらおうとしたりする、強く切実な頼み。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： 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.)

類義語： appeal, entreaty

よく使う表現： plea for help, desperate plea, emotional plea

弁解、言い訳

したことやしなかったことを説明し、正当化するために挙げる理由。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： on the plea of something (He missed the meeting on the plea of illness.)

類義語： excuse, justification

よく使う表現： plea of ignorance, plea of illness, on the plea