cry for help

基本解释

But in both cases it was probably more a cry for help.
但是在这两个事件中，他们有可能不只一次求助过。
It is a cry for help which compels stressed people to request support in times of intense need.
这种哭诉迫使压力下的人为了内心需求而发出的对外界支持的要求。
With only the most rudimentary of equipment, anyone in the world can relay anything in the world—a death toll, an explosion, a cry for help, an utterance of defiance.
通过最普通的设备，世界上的任何一个人都能够了解到当下发生的任何事情——一声丧钟，一个大爆炸，一声呼救或是反抗的呼声。

But too often their cry for help has sounded hopelessly against the outer walls, while others -- less deserving -- find easy entrance to the halls of Congress.
Now, the situation of the Israelites in Egypt, the text says, remains bitter. Exodus 2:23-24: ; "The Israelites were groaning under the bondage, and cried out; And their cry for help from the bondage rose up to God.
以色列人在埃及的境况，文中说，仍然很艰苦，《出埃及记》第2章23到24节：,“以色列人因作苦工，就叹息哀求;,他们的哀声达于神。
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