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Trad. 請便
- Please do as you wish!
- You are welcome to do whatever you like!
- Please make yourself at home.
Trad. 請功
- to request recognition for sb's merits
- to recommend sb for promotion or an award
Trad. 請安
- to pay respects
- to wish good health
- in Qing times, a specific form of salutation (see also 打千[da3 qian1])
Trad. 請戰
- to request to be sent into battle; (by extension) to volunteer for a dangerous or arduous task
Trad. 請纓
- to volunteer for military service
- to offer oneself for an assignment
Trad. 報請
- to report, requesting approval
- written request for instructions
Trad. 有請
- to request the pleasure of seeing sb
- to ask sb in
- to ask sb to do sth (e.g. make a speech)
Trad. 咨請
- to formally request (by means of an official communication 咨文[zi1 wen2])
Trad. 吃請
- to be a guest at a dinner party
- to be wined and dined (as a bribe)
Trad. 邀請賽
- invitation tournament (e.g. between schools or firms)
Trad. 申請書
- application
- application form
- petition (to higher authorities)
Trad. 不請自來
- to turn up without being invited
- unsolicited
Trad. 請別見怪
- please don't be upset
- no hard feelings
- absit iniuria verbis
- let injury by words be absent
Trad. 請君入甕
- lit. please Sir, get into the boiling pot (idiom)
- fig. to give sb a taste of his own medicine
Trad. 請多關照
- please treat me kindly (conventional greeting on first meeting)
Trad. 請求寬恕
- to sue for mercy
- to ask for forgiveness
- begging for magnanimity
Trad. 不情之請
- (idiom) (humble expression) my presumptuous request
Trad. 另請高明
- please find sb better qualified than me (idiom)
Trad. 負荊請罪
- lit. to bring a bramble and ask for punishment (idiom)
- fig. to offer sb a humble apology
Trad. 請將不如激將
- lit. to dispatch a general is not as effective as to excite a general
- fig. inciting people to action is more effective than dispatching orders
Trad. 請神容易送神難
- it's easier to invite the devil in than to send him away