| 词汇 | threaten |
| 释义 | threaten verb uk /ˈθret.ən/ us /ˈθret.ən/ B2[ T ] to tell someone that you will kill or hurt them or cause problems if they do not do what you want: 威胁，恐吓;扬言要 They threatened the shopkeeper with a gun.他们用枪威胁店主。 [ + to infinitive ]They threatened to kill him unless he did as they asked.他们威胁要杀他，除非他按他们说的去做。 C1[ T ] to be likely to cause harm or damage to something or someone: 威胁到;危害到 Changing patterns of agriculture are threatening the countryside.农业模式的变化可能会对农村造成破坏。 C2[ I ] If something bad threatens to happen, it is likely to happen: 预示凶兆;逼近 Look at those clouds! There's a storm threatening.看那些云！暴风雨要来了。 Greenpeace works to promote awareness of the dangers that threaten our planet today.绿色和平组织致力于促使人们了解当前威胁地球的危机。 Britain threatened to break off diplomatic relations.英国威胁说要断绝外交关系。 A masked robber threatened the bank staff with a gun. They threatened to blow up the plane if their demands were not met.他们威胁说如果要求得不到满足就炸毁飞机。 She's threatening to take me to court for not paying the bill on time.她威胁说要起诉我未按时付账。 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 You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Damaging and spoiling Possible and probable threaten | American Dictionarythreaten verb us/ˈθret·ən/ threatenverb (PROMISE TO HURT)[ I/T ] to tell someone that you will hurt or harm him or her, esp. if the person does not do something in particular: [ I ]They threatened to drop him from the team if he didn’t come to practice. [ T ]Don’t threaten me! threatenverb (WARN OF POSSIBILITY)[ T ] to warn of something unpleasant or unwanted: She threatened legal action against the newspaper. Because of continuing drought, millions are threatened with starvation. Examples of threatenthreaten The restriction imposed by the statute here threatens severe impairment of the judicial function. Marcus in his speech uses rhetorical means to release emotion that the initial shocking sight threatened to freeze. After 1921, even this minimum standard was threatened when the government responded to employers' complaints by cutting back on the number of new trade boards. At times, legal services workers have been threatened with charges of trespass. Anything that threatened this balance was anathema to him. Though the protagonist is clearly deserving of punishment, the capricious, almost arbitrary manner of the punishment threatens to eclipse his crimes. When she 'heard' her thoughts, she was frightened, felt out of control and her idyllic child-like environment threatened. He had benefited only recently from their influence when his position as abbot was threatened. Apart from doubts and hostility toward the notion of education for women, one incident threatened the whole venture. Rather, they lived in practical uncertainty, often felt threatened, and then argued about the justice and permanence of the new order created for them. Many trilobites could enroll when threatened, just like the living woodlouse some of them even evolved locking devices to make their enrollment really secure. Even so, the threatening waters do not retreat. Many of them, perhaps, were children of the ladies who had threatened the archbishop's predecessor thirty years before. Liberal policy was unpatriotic because it recognised other national interests and threatened dissolution of the empire. However, in circumstances when life itself is not threatened, the purpose becomes one of preventing, or at least minimising, injury and ill-health. See all examples of threaten 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. |
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