文青动作真快,我还特意查了字典,再转回来就没了.

appeal to 在Oxford and Longman 都有

to try to persuade someone to do something by reminding them that it is a good or fair thing to do

to try to persuade somebody to do something by suggesting that it is a fair, reasonable or honest thing to do

They needed to appeal to his sense of justice.

我觉得这里有calling for的意思.

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• 谢谢泡泡，看来MW上的不够全。 -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/10/2011 postreply 15:41:48