5.please Sir/Mrs Towers etcBritish EnglishBrE spokenATTENTION used by children to get an adult’s attention 请听我说,先生/托尔斯太太等〔儿语,用于引起成人的注意〕
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please• "Would you like some more wine?" "Yes, please."• Paige, sit down, please.• Two pancakes for me, please.• Could I pleaseborrow the car?• Please feel free to ask questions at any time.• Would you pleasehurry up - we're going to be late.
Please!
informal
a)said when you think what someone has just said or asked is not possible or reasonable 得了吧!〔用于表示认为某人的话或要求不可能或没有道理〕
Oh, please, he’d never do that.
哦,得了吧,他绝不会那么做的。
b)BEHAVEused to ask someone to stop behaving badly 够了!别闹了!〔用于要求别人停止做某事〕
Alison! Please!
艾莉森!够了!
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Please!• "Maybe we'll win." "Oh, please! We don't have any chance at all."• Allison! Please!
please2 ●●●W3 verb
1[intransitiveI, transitiveT]HAPPY to make someone happy or satisfied 使高兴,使欢喜;使满意,讨好
a business that wants to please its customers
希望让顾客满意的一家公司
She did everything she could to please him.
她千方百计讨好他。
Most children are eager to please.
大多数孩子都渴望取悦别人。
be hard/easy/impossible etc to please
She’s hard to please. Everything has to be perfect.
让她满意很难,一切都要做到完美才行。
nGRAMMAR: Using the progressive
Please is not used in the progressive. You say:
I do it because it pleases me.
✗Don’t say: I do it because it is pleasing me.
2FREE TO DO WHAT YOU WANT[intransitiveI] used in some phrases to show that someone can do or have what they want 想,选择,喜欢
She does what she pleases.
她我行我素。
however/whatever etc you please
You can spend the money however you please.
这些钱你想怎么花就怎么花。
With the Explorer pass, you can get on and off the bus as you please.
有了“探索者”通票,你可以随意上下公共汽车。
3please yourselfspokenFREE TO DO WHAT YOU WANT used when telling someone to do whatever they like, even though really you think they are making the wrongchoice 随你的便,我不在乎
‘I don’t think I’ll go.’ ‘Okay, please yourself.’
“我想我不会去。”“好吧,随你的便。”
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please yourself• They must also want to please each other and help each other to findfulfilment, as well as looking for personalsatisfaction.• This is the first time in I-don't-know-how-many-years I can just please myself!• Until I get there, though, I can please myself.• We play not to please ourselves, but the listeners.• Oh, she would please herself, all right.• She was going home to her flat to please herself for a few weeks.• "I don't think I'll go." "Oh, well, please yourself. I'm going anyway."• There was no foreman to watch over him and he could please himself when he made his walk around the yard.
4if you pleaseold-fashioned
a)formalASK FOR something/ASK somebody TO DO something used to politely ask someone to do something 请,劳驾〔用于礼貌地提出请求〕
Close the door, if you please.
请关上门。
b)BELIEVEBritish EnglishBrE used to show that you are surprised, angry, or annoyed about something 真奇怪;真是有此理;真令人难以置信〔用于表示惊讶或气愤〕
He asked me, in my own house if you please, to leave the room!
他真是岂有此理,竟然在我的家里叫我离开房间!
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if you please• Spell it for me, if you please.• Bring me a bottle, if you please.• Doctor Illingworth, to you, sir, if you please!• Mr Justice Blackstone, if you please.• Nor friends to vipers, if you please.• Three meters, if you please!• We were in the White House, if you please, and he wanted us to leave the room.• They are being forced - by politicians, if you please, as if politics were something serious like money - to compete.• The reader may watch it if he pleases, it exists for itself, not for him.
5bold/calm/cool etc as you pleaseBritish EnglishBrE spokenSURPRISED very bold, calm etc, in a way that is surprising 竟然如此大胆/冷静/镇静等
He just walked in and sat down, as bold as you please.
他径直走进来坐下,竟然如此大胆。
6please GodHOPEused to express a very strong hope or wish 但愿,希望〔用于表示非常强烈的愿望〕
Everything will be all right, please God.
但愿一切都平安无事。
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please God• Everything's going to be fine, please God.
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please• They felt this would impart a pleasing curvature to an otherwise rectangular building.• I think he tries a little too hard to please.• Can not affordnationaladvertising, so relies on verbaltestimonials to expand business, so eager to please.• I think we have the right to move about as we please.• I was pleased because this is a perfecttext for a pentecostalsermon: it predicts the New Jerusalem.• Unfortunately, it's impossible to please everyone, all of the time, at the same time, but I tried.• I was pleased he hadn't seen the note or the tears that I left behind on my Granny's face.• Sam is always doing little things to please her, but she hardly even notices.• I only got married to please my parents.• I was pleased that they selected these people.• Most young children are eager to please their teachers.• Serious snowboarders will be pleased to discover most aspects of the sport have been covered.• Choose room colors to please yourself, not your friends.
eager to please• And everyone at Angelique is genuinely eager to please.• Can not afford national advertising, so relies on verbal testimonials to expand business, so eager to please.• Everyone who works there is friendly and eager to please.• Like Julia, Nina is eager to please and dissipates her personality in those around her.• The Yugoslavs are a friendly people who are eager to please and will always be happy to help you.• Mike and Arlene were eager to please, decent, good, friendly people.• Her name was Mrs Dempster, and she seemed pleasant and eager to please her new master.• But, hey, the show is so earnest and eager to please that such things are almost easy to overlook.
ADVERB | VERB + PLEASE | PHRASESADVERB➤enormously使⋯極其高興◇The result pleased us enormously.結果讓我們極其高興。VERB + PLEASE➤be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to難以使⋯滿意;無法取悅◇Some children are very difficult to please.有些孩子很難使其滿意。➤be easy to容易取悅▸➤be eager to急於取悅◇He's always very eager to please.他總是極力想討好別人。➤try to想要使⋯高興▸➤fail to未能使⋯滿意◇The planning policy failed to please anyone.規劃政策令誰都不滿意。PHRASES➤there's no pleasing sb不可能使某人滿意◇There's just no pleasing some people (= some people are impossible to please).有些人你是沒法讓他們滿意的。
➡ See also the entry for delight另见delight条please ♦︎ satisfy ♦︎ make sb's day ♦︎ gratifyThese words all mean to make sb feel pleased or happy.这些词均表示使某人满意或愉快。SYNONYM SCALE 词义标尺下图显示这些词所表达使人满意的程度
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make sb's day
gratify
PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆It pleased / satisfied / gratified sb that...◆It pleased / gratified sb to find / hear / know / see / think...◆to really please sb / make sb's day / gratify sb◆You can't please / satisfy everybody / everyone.◆Nothing pleases / satisfies sb.■please [transitive, intransitive] to make sb feel pleased使满意;使愉快;取悦◆I did it to please my parents.我这么做是要让父母高兴。◆There's just no pleasing some people(= some people are impossible to please).有些人你是没法让他们满意的。◆She's always very eager to please.她总是急于取悦别人。OPPdisplease ⇨ annoy see also pleased ⇨ glad, pleasing ⇨ satisfying■satisfy [transitive] (not used in the progressive tenses; often used in negative sentences不用于进行时;常用于否定句) to please sb by doing or giving them what they want使满意;使满足◆Nothing satisfies him-he's always complaining.什么都难让他满意-他老是在抱怨。◆The proposed plan will not satisfy everyone.拟议中的计划不会让所有人都满意。 see also satisfied ⇨ happy, satisfying ⇨ satisfyingNOTE辨析 Please or satisfy?Please is often a stronger and more positive word than satisfy. Something that satisfies you is just good enough, but sth might please you very much. * please常表达比satisfy更强、更正面的含义。satisfy表示足够好,但是please可以表示非常令人满意◆The result pleased us enormously.结果让我们喜出望外。◆The result satisfied us enormously.Both words can be used in negative sentences to say that sth is not good enough.这两个词都可用于否定句,表示不够好◆The planning policy failed to please / satisfy anyone.规划政策未能让任何人满意。■make sb's ˈday
idiom
(made, made) (ratherinformal, especiallyspoken) to make sb feel very happy on a particular day使兴奋(或高兴)一天◆The phone call from Mike really made my day.迈克打来的电话让我一整天都高兴得不得了。■gratify [transitive] (ratherformal, written) to please sb by making them feel that they are good at sth, liked or valued使(觉得能干、受欢迎或受重视而)高兴(或满意)◆It gratified him to think that it was all his work.一想到这都是他的工作成果,他感到十分欣慰。◆I was gratified by their invitation.收到他们的邀请,我感到很高兴。 see also gratifying ⇨ satisfying