1. | （用于客气地请求或吩咐）请，请问used as a polite way of asking for sth or telling sb to do sth |
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？ |
2. | （用于加强请求或陈述的语气）请千万，请务必，的确used to add force to a request or statement |
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。 |
3. | （表示接受的客气话）太感谢了，太好了used as a polite way of accepting sth |
‘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。” |
4. | (informal) （用于让别人停止不规矩行为）别闹了，收敛点儿used to ask sb to stop behaving badly |
Children, please! I'm trying to work. 孩子们，别闹了！我在干活哪。 | |
John! Please! 约翰！老实点儿吧！ |
5. | （认为对方说话荒唐时用）得了吧，算了吧used when you are replying to sb who has said sth that you think is stupid |
Oh, please! You cannot be serious. 喔，得了吧！你准是在打哈哈。 |
1. | [t][i] ~ (sb).it pleases sb to do sth 使满意；使愉快to make sb happy |
You can't please everybody. 你无法让每个人都满意。 | |
He's a difficult man to please. 他是个难以取悦的人。 | |
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。 | |
She's always very eager to please. 她总是急欲取悦别人。 |
2. | [i] （常用在 as 或 what、 where 等词后）想，选择，喜欢often used afteras orwhat ,where , etc. to mean ‘to want’, ‘to choose’ or ‘to like’ to do sth |
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。 |
Take a seat, if you please. 请坐吧。 |
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！ |
Take a seat, if you please. 请坐吧。 |
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 God, don't let him be dead. 老天爷呀！千万别让他死啊。 |
Please God, don't let him be dead. 老天爷呀！千万别让他死啊。 |
‘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。” |
‘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。” |
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。 |
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。 |
