请

请 [qǐng] 动

1. ■ （请求） request; ask:

能不能请你帮个忙? May I ask a favour of you?

请你多加指导。 It is hoped you will give us guidance.

请他进来[上楼]。 Ask him in [upstairs].

她请老师帮助她。 She asked help from her teacher.

兹定于三月二日晚七时半在友谊宾馆举行宴会， 敬请光临。 Your presence is requested at a banquet to be given at the Friendship Hotel at 7:30 p.m. of March 2.

2. ■ （邀请; 聘请） invite; engage:

请医生 send for a doctor;

请总工程师来讲课 invite the chief engineer to give a lecture;

敬[恳]请莅临视察。 Inspection is respectfully [cordially] invited.

他是从国外请来的。 He was engaged from abroad.

3. ■ （招待; 款待） entertain:

我们请朋友吃午饭。 We entertained friends to lunch.

4. ■ [敬] （用于希望对方做某事） please:

请安静。 Be quiet, please.

请不要笑。 Please don't laugh.

请速回信。 Please reply as soon as possible.

请坐。 Won't you sit down?; Please be seated.; Sit down, please.