please

exclamation

🔊/pliːz/

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used as a polite way of asking for something or telling somebody to do something（用于客气地请求或吩咐）请，请问
- Please sit down.请坐。🔊🔊
- Two coffees, please.请来两杯咖啡。🔊🔊
- Quiet please!请安静！🔊🔊
- Please could I leave early today?请问我今天早走一会儿行吗？🔊🔊
Express Yourself Asking for something
Asking for something请求给予某物Whether you are in shops or restaurants or in somebody's home, you can use polite questions to get what you want:在店铺、餐馆或别人家礼貌地请求给予某物，可用以下方式：
- Could I have a glass of water, please?请给我一杯水好吗？
- Do you have any decaffeinated coffee?你们有没有不含咖啡因的咖啡？
- I'd like tea with sugar, please.请来一杯加糖的茶。
- I'll have the pasta with salad, please.请给我来份意大利面配色拉。
Responses:回应：
- Certainly.当然可以。
- I'm sorry, we don't have any left.抱歉，已经没有了。
- Yes, of course. Here you are/go.好的，给你。
used to add force to a request or statement（用于加强请求或陈述的语气）请千万，请务必，的确
- Please don't leave me here alone.请千万别把我一个人留在这儿。🔊🔊
- Please, please don't forget.请务必务必不要忘记呀。🔊🔊
- Please, I don't understand what I have to do.我的确不明白我该做什么。🔊🔊
used as a polite way of accepting something（表示接受的客气话）太感谢了，太好了
- ‘Would you like some help?’ ‘Yes, please.’“您需要帮忙吗？” “是的。太感谢了。”🔊🔊
- ‘Coffee?’ ‘Please.’“要咖啡吗？” “那太好了。”🔊🔊
Please!
(informal, often humorous) used to ask somebody to stop behaving badly（用于让别人停止不规矩行为）别闹了，收敛点儿
- Children, please! I'm trying to work.孩子们，别闹了！我在干活呢。🔊🔊
- John! Please!约翰！老实点儿吧！🔊🔊
Please/P-lease

🔊/pəˈliːz/

🔊/pəˈliːz/
used when you are replying to somebody who has said something that you think is stupid（认为对方说话荒唐时用）得了吧，算了吧
- Oh, please! You cannot be serious.喔，得了吧！你准是在打哈哈。🔊🔊

Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French plaisir ‘to please’, from Latin placere.

please

verb

🔊/pliːz/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they please	🔊/pliːz/ 🔊/pliːz/
he / she / it pleases	🔊/ˈpliːzɪz/ 🔊/ˈpliːzɪz/
past simple pleased	🔊/pliːzd/ 🔊/pliːzd/
past participle pleased	🔊/pliːzd/ 🔊/pliːzd/
-ing form pleasing	🔊/ˈpliːzɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈpliːzɪŋ/

Idioms

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[transitive, intransitive] to make somebody happy使满意；使愉快
- please somebody You can't please everybody.你无法让每个人都满意。🔊🔊
- Children are usually easy to please. 孩子们通常很容易取悦。
- He's a difficult man to please.他是个难以取悦的人。🔊🔊
- I was pleased by the results. 我对结果感到满意。
- 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。🔊🔊
- I did it to please my parents.我这么做是要让父母高兴。🔊🔊
- You must be pleased by their confidence in you.他们对你很有信心，你一定为此高兴。
- it pleases somebody to do something It pleased him to see the children playing with their gifts.他很高兴看到孩子们玩着礼物。
- She's always very eager to please.她总是急欲取悦别人。🔊🔊
- This film is sure to please horror fans.这部电影肯定会取悦恐怖片迷。
- These guys aim to please and they never fail. 这些家伙的目标是取悦他们，他们永远不会失败。
opposite displease
Extra Examples
- Some children are very difficult to please.有些孩子很难使其满意。
- The planning policy failed to please anyone.规划政策令谁都不满意。
- The result pleased us enormously.结果让我们喜出望外。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adverb
- enormously
verb + please
- be difficult to
- be hard to
- be impossible to
- …
phrases
- there’s no pleasing somebody
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[intransitive] often used after as or what, where, etc. to mean ‘to want’, ‘to choose’ or ‘to like’ to do something（常用在 as 或 what、where 等词后）想，选择，喜欢
- You may stay as long as you please.你想待多久就待多久。🔊🔊
- She always does exactly as she pleases.她总是我行我素。🔊🔊
- I'm free now to live wherever I please.我现在想住哪里就住哪里。🔊🔊
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Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French plaisir ‘to please’, from Latin placere.

Idioms

if you please

(old-fashioned, formal) used when politely asking somebody to do something（表示客气时用）请
- Take a seat, if you please.请坐吧。🔊🔊
(especially British English, old-fashioned) used to say that you are annoyed or surprised at somebody’s actions（用于对某人的行为表示气愤或惊异）你们听听，岂有此理
- And now, if you please, he wants me to rewrite the whole thing!哼！你们听听，他竟要我全部重写！🔊🔊

please the eye

to be very attractive to look at十分悦目

please God

used to say that you very much hope or wish that something will happen or not happen（表示殷切期望）但愿老天帮忙，上帝保佑
- Please God, don't let him be dead.老天爷呀！千万别让他死啊。🔊🔊

please yourself

(informal) used to tell somebody that you are annoyed with them and do not care what they do（表示恼怒和不关心）随你的便，悉听尊便
- ‘I don't think I'll bother finishing this.’ ‘Please yourself.’“我想我不会费力做完这件事。” “随你的便。”🔊🔊

please yourself | do as you please

to be able to do whatever you like能够随心所欲
- There were no children to cook for, so we could just please ourselves.因为不用给孩子做饭，我们就可以自便了。🔊🔊

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