[reporting verb]ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something
恳求,请求
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[with obj. and infinitive]
his friends entreated him not to go .他的朋友们求他别走。
[with obj.]ask earnestly or anxiously for (something)
请求得到
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a message had been sent, entreating aid for the Navahos .请求给纳瓦霍人提供援助的电报已经发出。
[with obj. and adverbial]
〈古〉 对待
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the King, I fear, hath ill entreated her .恐怕国王虐待了她。
"late Middle English (in the sense ‘treat, act towards (someone)’; formerly also as