| 词汇 | threat |
| 释义 | threat noun[ C ] uk /θret/ us /θret/ B2 a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is not followed: 威胁，恐吓 [ + to infinitive ]Her parents carried out their threat to take away her mobile phone if her grades didn't improve.她父母威胁说，如果她不能提高成绩，就要没收她的手机。 threat ofThe threat of jail failed to deter him from petty crime.坐牢的可能也没能吓住他小偷小摸。 pose a threat toDrunken drivers pose a serious threat (= cause a lot of harm) to other road users.酒后驾车者对其他路人构成了严重威胁。 empty threatHe says he'll tell the authorities but it's just an empty threat (= it will not happen).他称他要向当局报告，不过那只是一句吓唬人的话。 be under threat of something to be in a situation where people are threatening you or something else with something bad or unpleasant: She left the country under threat of arrest if she returned.她离开了那个国家，并被警告说一旦返回就会被逮捕。 Nuclear weapons pose a threat to everyone.核武器对所有的人都构成了威胁。 The police have to take any terrorist threat seriously.警方必须认真对待任何恐怖分子的威胁。 It is hoped that the kidnappers will not carry out their threat to kill the hostages.希望绑架者不会如他们威胁所言将人质杀死。 Three main line railway stations were closed because of bomb threats.3个干线车站因炸弹威胁而关闭。 The key witness for the prosecution was offered police protection after she received death threats.原告的关键证人在受到死亡恐吓后得到了警方的保护。 Dangers and threats balefully baneful banefully black spot hang hang over something hazard hazardous hazardously non-lethal on/under pain of deathidiom or elseidiom parlous parlously someone's bark is worse than his/her biteidiom tombstoning treacherously triple threat ultra-hazardous venturesome threat | American Dictionarythreat noun us/θret/ threatnoun (PROMISE TO HURT)[ C ] a statement that someone will be hurt or harmed, esp. if the person does not do something in particular: She was fired after making threats to her co-workers. threatnoun (UNWANTED POSSIBILITY)[ C/U ] the possibility that something unwanted will happen, or a person or thing that is likely to cause something unwanted to happen: [ U ]A threat of rain is in today’s forecast. [ U ]The boundary dispute raised the threat of war. Examples of threatthreat Then why does threat simulation co-occur with psychological troubles? In approaching their prospects, network marketers enjoy the privilege of exploiting the element of intimacy by reducing the potential threat to their prospects' negative face. Some participants reported that the threat was current and ongoing, while others did not think it would happen for over 6 months. Could one overcome the threat to the interest theory by arguing that interests are ranked only by their contribution to further interests? The simulation of threat recognition is supposed to proceed in the following way. It is also not unique in suffering high levels of air and water pollution and facing severe threats to its biological resources. This may have been used as both reward and threat. Yet, this may be ultimately the most manageable of the threats. Even the most salient traces typically represent only relatively mild threats. In the wider context of the decade this was a disturbing threat to a nominally ordered society. And certainly there are persons to whom no further threat can be made. The child is never personally in danger; the threats are directed against some characters in the story. These findings strongly suggest that future research efforts may be profitably directed toward this heretofore underappreciated threat to children's adjustment. Perhaps the most vexing aspect of this validity threat is the problems associated with polytomously scored responses, specifically deciding how to weight partially correct responses. This notion of threat stimuli includes signals that connote or predict punishment. See all examples of threat These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withthreatthreatThese are words often used in combination with threat. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. competitive threat These switches reflect consumers' free choice and serve as a competitivethreat to the sickness funds. constant threat Is not the constantthreat of force the worst nightmare of friends of liberty? continual threat Such hardships were attributed by the missionaries to the insecurities brought about by the continual threat of discovery and persecution. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with threat |
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