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threaten

英 ['θret(ə)n] 美['θrɛtn]

英英释义同义词辨析考试真题实用场景例句

vt. 威胁；恐吓；预示
vi. 威胁；可能来临

考试真题

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.

When dogs looked at expressions of angry dogs, their eyes rested more on the mouth, perhaps to interpret the threatening expressions.

They showed threatening, pleasant and neutral expressions.

Failing states are of international concern because they are a source of terrorists, drugs, weapons and refugees ( ' , 难民), threatening political stability everywhere.

A 16th century castle in Scotland is close to collapsing after lumps of soil were washed away by floods, threatening its foundations.

He had a terrible temper, and once threatened to kill another child.

However, today is a new era in which taking antibiotics can cause some very dangerous and potentially life threatening situations.

And faculty members will be wary of any change that threatens the core curriculum in the name of moving students into the workforce.

Some argue that people are anxious and feel threatened by an inflow of new workers.

Disaster movies often portray catastrophes that destroy, or at least threaten to destroy earth's entire population.

What does the man say threatens the existence of railways?

When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and, if we happen to love it, we invent excuses to give it economic importance.

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.

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.

Finally,because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.