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suppliant 英 ['sʌplɪənt] 　美 [ˈsʌpliənt]

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suppliant

adj. 恳求的；哀求的　 n. 恳求者；哀求者　

名词复数:suppliants　

"The Suppliant Women" is the only surviving part of the lost Danaüs trilogy.　《谦卑的女人》是丹尼亚斯三部曲中唯一保存下来的那部分。

And now, and for the first time, he was a suppliant, tender and timid and doubting.　可现在他第一次变成了个温柔、羞怯、忐忑不安的追求者。

Suppliant means someone who is asking humbly. You enter church as a suppliant, asking God to spare you from illness. You ask in a suppliant (humble) manner, because you know God is stern and demands total faith.

1. "The Suppliant Women" is the only surviving part of the lost Danaüs trilogy.

《谦卑的女人》是丹尼亚斯三部曲中唯一保存下来的那部分。
2. And now, and for the first time, he was a suppliant, tender and timid and doubting.

可现在他第一次变成了个温柔、羞怯、忐忑不安的追求者。
3. Nearly ten years later, he produced "The Suppliant Women, " his first known tragedy.

差不多十年之后，他推出了他第一部有影响力的悲剧——《谦卑的女人》。

suppliant (n.) early 15c., from Middle French suppliant, noun use of present participle of supplier "to plead humbly, entreat, beg, pray," (Old French souploier, 12c.), from Latin supplicare "beg, beseech" (see supplication). Originally in English especially at law; sense of "humble petitioner" is from mid-16c. As an adjective, "supplicating, entreating" from 1580s. Related: Suppliance; suppliantly.