crave GRE专八托福

crave a person's pardon

恳求人原谅

I must crave your indulgence.

我必须祈求你原谅。

The attorney craved the court's indulgence.

律师切盼法的宽大处理。

Many young children crave attention.

许多小孩子渴望得到关心。

May I crave your attention?

我可以请你注意一下吗？

I begged her to forgive me.

crave 用于指一个严肃的要求行为，有时持谦卑的态度，特别是对人们不能作为权利来要求的：

What he craved was neither luxury nor the high rhetoric of history painting, but apprehensible truth, visible, familiar, open to touch and repetition.

他渴求的既非奢华也非历史画的极尽修饰，而是可理解、看得见、感觉熟悉、摸得到且可重复的的真实。