beg for one's life
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To plead or make a desperate attempt to continue with what one has been doing.
— They got hearing after hearing. They begged for their lives; they pled for their millions invested in a "legitimate industry"; they told of the thousands of men who would be thrown out of employment if this bill should go through, and of the thousands of slaughtering machines owned by Jersey men, that would be confiscated if this bill should become a law.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beg, life.
— But he abandoned all dignity when he begged for his life.
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