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Word family  noun pleasantry pleasure ≠ displeasure adjective pleasant ≠ unpleasant pleased ≠ displeased pleasing ≠ displeasing pleasurable verb please ≠ displease adverb pleasantly ≠ unpleasantly pleasingly pleasurably

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++please1 /pliːz/ ●●● S1 W2 interjection  1  EMPHASIZEused to be polite when asking someone to do something 请，好吗〔用于礼貌地请求某人做某事〕 Could you please clean up the living room? 你把起居室打扫一下好吗？ Sit down, please. 请坐。 Please be quiet! 请安静！2  THANKused to be polite when asking for something 好吗，请〔用于礼貌地要求某物〕 I’d like a cup of coffee, please. 请给我一杯咖啡。 Please can I go to Rebecca’s house? 请问，我能去丽贝卡家吗？3  ACCEPTsaid in order to politely accept something that someone offers you 好，行，谢谢〔用于接受别人的好意〕 ‘More wine?’ ‘Yes, please.’ “还要酒吗？”“好的，谢谢。”n4. → Please!5. please Sir/Mrs Towers etc British English 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 please borrow the car?• Please feel free to ask questions at any time.• Would you please hurry up - we're going to be late.nPlease!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  [intransitive, transitive]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。n GRAMMAR: Using the progressivePlease 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.2  FREE TO DO WHAT YOU WANT[intransitive] 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。3  please yourself spokenFREE TO DO WHAT YOU WANT used when telling someone to do whatever they like, even though really you think they are making the wrong choice 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。”4  if you please old-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) BELIEVE British English 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！5  bold/calm/cool etc as you please British English 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。6  please God HOPEused 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。→ See Verb table

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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 afford national advertising, so relies on verbal testimonials 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 perfect text for a pentecostal sermon: 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.what ... pleases• The client pays the bar to take her off, to do what he pleases.• The porter holds the car door as if restraining a very strong, young Galapagos tortoise from doing what it pleases.• Within a considerable range, he is permitted to believe what he pleases.• A proper place with real women who understand what pleases a man.• What pleases me may not please you, and my recommendation may disappoint you - and then what would you think?• And he categorises what pleases the imagination as what is great, what is new, and what is beautiful.• Have the courage of your convictions to play what pleases you.• Do you know what pleases your partner most?Origin please2 (1300-1400) Old French plaisir, from Latin placere “to please, be decided”

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please¹ S1 W2 /pliːz/ interjection
1. used to be polite when asking someone to do something:
    Could you please clean up the living room?
    Sit down, please.
    Please be quiet!
2. used to be polite when asking for something:
    I’d like a cup of coffee, please.
    Please can I go to Rebecca’s house?
3. said in order to politely accept something that someone offers you:
    ‘More wine?’ ‘Yes, please.’
4. Please! informal
  a. said when you think what someone has just said or asked is not possible or reasonable:
    Oh, please, he’d never do that.
  b. used to ask someone to stop behaving badly:
    Alison! Please!
5. please Sir/Mrs Towers etc British English spoken used by children to get an adult’s attention

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please² W3 verb1. [intransitive, transitive not in progressive] to make someone happy or satisfied:
    a business that wants to please its customers
    She did everything she could to please him.
    Most children are eager to please.
    be hard/easy/impossible etc to please
    She’s hard to please. Everything has to be perfect.
2. [intransitive not in progressive] used in some phrases to show that someone can do or have what they want:
    She does what she pleases.
    however/whatever etc you please
    You can spend the money however you please.
    With the Explorer pass, you can get on and off the bus as you please.
3. please yourself spoken used when telling someone to do whatever they like, even though really you think they are making the wrong choice:
    ‘I don’t think I’ll go.’ ‘Okay, please yourself.’
4. if you please old-fashioned
  a. formal used to politely ask someone to do something:
    Close the door, if you please.
  b. British English used to show that you are surprised, angry, or annoyed about something:
    He asked me, in my own house if you please, to leave the room!
5. bold/calm/cool etc as you please British English spoken very bold, calm etc, in a way that is surprising:
    He just walked in and sat down, as bold as you please.
6. please God used to express a very strong hope or wish:
    Everything will be all right, please God.