基本释义
- v.
- 恐吓; 对…构成威胁
词性变化
- 第三人称单数:threatens;
- 过去式:threatened;
- 过去分词:threatened;
- 现在分词:threatening;
实用例句
They broke my windows and threatened me.
他们砸碎我的窗子并威胁我。
牛津词典
The attacker threatened them with a gun.
袭击者用枪威胁他们。
牛津词典
He was threatened with dismissal if he continued to turn up late for work.
他受到警告，如果继续上班迟到，就被辞退。
牛津词典
The threatened strike has been called off.
扬言要进行的罢工被取消了。
牛津词典
The hijackers threatened to kill one passenger every hour if their demands were not met.
劫机者要挟说，如果他们的要求得不到满足，他们每过一小时就杀死一名乘客。
牛津词典
A storm was threatening.
暴风雨即将来临。
牛津词典
This dispute threatens to split the party.
这一分歧可能会造成党的分裂。
牛津词典
The clouds threatened rain.
乌云密布预示大雨将至。
牛津词典
Pollution is threatening marine life.
污染正危及海洋生物。
牛津词典
He said army officers had threatened to destroy the town...
他说陆军军官们曾威胁要摧毁那座小镇。
He tied her up and threatened her with a six-inch knife...
他把她捆起来，拿着一把 6 英寸长的刀子威胁她。
The newcomers directly threaten the livelihood of the established workers...
新来的工人直接威胁到老工人的饭碗。
The unity of our society is threatened by troublesome and restless minorities...
我们社会的团结遭到了一小撮滋扰生事、不安分守己的群体的威胁。
The fighting is threatening to turn into full-scale war...
这场战斗有可能会演变为全面的战争。
Plants must be covered with a leaf-mould or similarly protected if frost threatens.
如果霜冻来临，植物必须盖上腐叶土或用类似方法加以保护。
She said the situation could worsen if storms move north and threaten winter grain supplies.
她说,如果暴风雪向北方移动,将威胁到冬季粮食的供应,局势将进一步恶化.
期刊摘选
There is some unease that this could threaten established fundamentals valued by cultures and disciplines.
更令人忧虑的是这有可能威胁到文化和学科所确立的基础理念.
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Whatever you do, do not threaten people.
无论如何,你也不要去威胁别人.
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The clouds threaten rain.
云预示有雨.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
Lao Tzu said, " The people fear not death, why threaten them with it? "
老子说过: “ 民不畏死, 奈何以死惧之. ”
期刊摘选
Proponent threaten of the dead is met later appeal masses holds meeting, put forward to protest.
死者的支持者扬言稍后会号召群众举行集会, 提出抗议.
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And they feel that unknown dangers in the business world threaten the survival of businessestheir business.
他们觉得生意场上未知的危险威胁着他们事业的生存.
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Don't threaten me with death; I'm past caring!
别用死来威胁我, 我不在乎!
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But new technologies for distributing movies and television shows now threaten to overwhelm these national barriers.
不过,新的电影与电视节目传播技术出现以后,这些国家的保护屏障开始受到威胁.
期刊摘选
Their large size alone is enough to intimidate any other animal that may threaten them.
光凭他们的大个子就足以吓唬那些可能威胁他们的其他任何动物了.
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Dark clouds threaten a heavy storm.
乌去预示着有一场风暴.
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真题例句
Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down: I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had, she says.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文When dogs looked at expressions of angry dogs, their eyes rested more on the mouth, perhaps to interpret the threatening expressions.
出自-2017年6月听力原文They showed threatening, pleasant and neutral expressions.
出自-2017年6月听力原文Failing states are of international concern because they are a source of terrorists, drugs, weapons and refugees , threatening political stability everywhere.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文A 16th century castle in Scotland is close to collapsing after lumps of soil were washed away by floods, threatening its foundations.
出自-2016年12月听力原文He had a terrible temper, and once threatened to kill another child.
出自-2015年12月听力原文However, today is a new era in which taking antibiotics can cause some very dangerous and potentially life threatening situations.
出自-2017年6月听力原文And faculty members will be wary of any change that threatens the core curriculum in the name of moving students into the workforce.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文Some argue that people are anxious and feel threatened by an inflow of new workers.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文Disaster movies often portray catastrophes that destroy, or at least threaten to destroy earth's entire population.
出自-2013年6月听力原文What does the man say threatens the existence of railways?
出自-2010年12月听力原文When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and, if we happen to love it, we invent excuses to give it economic importance.
出自-2010年考研翻译原文But we are now knowledgeable enough to reduce many of the risks that threatened the existence of earlier humans, and to improve the lot of those to come.
出自-2013年考研阅读原文These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.
出自-2018年考研翻译原文Finally,because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.
出自-2018年考研阅读原文英英释义
1. pose a threat to; present a danger to;
"The pollution is endangering the crops"
2. to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:"He threatened me when I tried to call the police"
3. to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain";
"Danger threatens"