please
US: /ˈpɫiz/
UK: /plˈiːz/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
please /pli:z/- động từ
- làm vui lòng, làm hài lòng, làm vừa lòng, làm vừa ý; làm thích, làm vui
- to please the eye: làm vui mắt, làm thích mắt
- to please one's parents: làm vui lòng cha mẹ
- to be pleased with: hài lòng với, vui lòng với
- to be pleased to do something: vui lòng làm gì
- thích, muốn
- please yourself: anh thích gì xin cứ làm, xin anh cứ làm theo ý muốn
- take as many as you please: anh muốn bao nhiêu xin cứ lấy
- if you please; please
- mong ông (bà...) làm ơn (ngụ ý lễ phép, tôn kính)
- please tell me: mong ông vui lòng cho tôi biết
- please sit down: xin mời ngồi
- now, if you please
- (mỉa mai) anh thử nghĩ mà xem, anh thử tưởng tượng xem
- and now, if you please, he expects me to pay for it!: anh thử tưởng tượng xem, hắn ta lại đợi tôi trả tiền cơ!
- please God
- lạy Chúa!, lạy trời!
- please the pigs
- (xem) pig
- [may it] please your honour
- mong ngài vui lòng cho, mong ngài hạ cố cho, ngài rủ lòng cho
- làm vui lòng, làm hài lòng, làm vừa lòng, làm vừa ý; làm thích, làm vui
Advanced English dictionary
exclamation, verb+ exclamation
1 used as a polite way of asking for sth or telling sb to do sth: Please sit down. + Two coffees, please. + Quiet please! + Please could I leave early today?
2 used to add force to a request or statement: Please don't leave me here alone. + Please, please don't forget. + Please, I don't understand what I have to do.
3 used as a polite way of accepting sth: 'Would you like some help?' 'Yes, please.' + 'Coffee?' 'Please.'
4 (Please!) (informal, often humorous) used to ask sb to stop behaving badly: Children, please! I'm trying to work. + John! Please!
5 (Please, Pl-ease) used when you are replying to sb who has said sth that you think is stupid: Oh, please! You cannot be serious.
+ verb
1 to make sb happy: [VN] You can't please everybody. + He's a difficult man to please. + There's just no pleasing some people (= some people are impossible to please). + I did it to please my parents. + [V] She's always very eager to please. [also VN to inf]
Antonym: DISPLEASE
2 [V] often used after as or what, where, etc. to mean 'to want', 'to choose' or 'to like' to do sth: You may stay as long as you please. + She always does exactly as she pleases. + I'm free now to live wherever I please.
Idioms: if you please
1 (old-fashioned, formal) (spoken) used when politely asking sb to do sth: Take a seat, if you please.
2 (old-fashioned, especially BrE) used to say that you are annoyed or surprised at sb's actions: And now, if you please, he wants me to rewrite the whole thing!
please the eye to be very attractive to look at
please God used to say that you very much hope or wish that sth will happen: Please God, don't let him be dead.
please yourself (spoken) used to tell sb that you are annoyed with them and do not care what they do: 'I don't think I'll bother finishing this.' 'Please yourself.'
please yourself
do as you please to be able to do whatever you like: There were no children to cook for, so we could just please ourselves.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 delight, gratify, satisfy, suit, humour, content, cheer, gladden, amuse, divert, interest, entertain:
I cannot tell you how much it pleases me to see you again.
2 like, prefer, choose, desire, want, see fit, wish, will, elect, opt:
She may have her birthday party wherever she pleases.
Collocation
ADV.
enormously
The result pleased us enormously.
VERB + PLEASE
be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to
Some children are very difficult to please.
| be easy to | be eager to
He's always very eager to please.
| try to | fail to
The planning policy failed to please anyone.
PHRASES
there's no pleasing sb
There's just no pleasing some people. (= Some people are impossible to please.)
Concise dictionary
pleases|pleased|pleasingplɪːzverb
+give pleasure to or be pleasing to
+be the will of or have the will (to)
+give satisfaction
adv.
+used in polite request
