一、详细释义:


v.

扬言要,威胁,恐吓,恫吓 [I,T]


例句:

The president threaten to use his veto over the bill.

总统威胁要对这个议案行使否决权。


例句:

He threatened to call the police.

他威胁着要叫警察。


预示…的凶兆,有…的危险 [I,T]


例句:

Dark skies threatened rain.

天空发黑预示要下雨。


例句:

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。


危害到;威胁到 [T]


例句:

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。


例句:

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。


二、词义辨析:


threaten,menace

这两个动词均有“威胁、恐吓”之意。 threaten侧重扬言要对不服从者给予惩罚,有时指某种情况所预示的恶兆。 menace系正式用词,着重以脸色或某种意志给以威胁,而不用语言明白表示出来。


三、参考例句:


The clouds threaten rain.

云预示有雨。


They threaten them with violence.

他们对其进行暴力威胁。


Don’t threaten me with love, baby.

千万别用爱来威胁我,亲爱的。


They threaten to cancel the whole project at a stroke.

他们扬言要一下子取消整个项目。


If we squander our fossil fuels, we threaten civilization.

如果我们浪费矿物燃料,我们就威胁了文明。


Anybody who is foolish enough to threaten our family.

要是哪个傻瓜活腻了,敢找我们花家人的麻烦。


It would threaten the 120 million hectares red line.

还可能对1。2亿公顷的耕地红线构成威胁。


The president threaten to use his veto over the bill.

总统威胁要对这个议案行使否决权。


The newcomers directly threaten the livelihood of the established workers.

新来的人直接威胁到了现有工人的生计。


Protectionism and nationalism threaten the foundations of free-market economics.

保护主义和民族主义威胁到了自由市场经济的基础。