threatened

['θretənd]
  • 释义
  • adj.

    受到威胁的;

  • v.

    威胁(threaten的过去分词);

  • 词义辨析
  • threaten, menace
  • 这组词共同的意思是“威胁,恐吓”。它们的区别是:
    threaten指如不服从将会有严重后果,以此相威胁,迫使别人干某事或不许别人干某事; menace多指用目光、行动或武器等对别人进行恐吓。
  • 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。
  • 双语例句
  • 1、

    Underneath this image of normalcy, addiction threatened to rip this family apart.

    在这一切正常的表象下潜伏的是将使这个家庭四分五裂的毒瘾。

    ——柯林斯例句
  • 2、

    30 percent of reptiles, birds, and fish are currently threatened with extinction.

    目前,30%的爬行动物、鸟类和鱼类面临灭绝的危险。

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  • 3、

    Teachers were threatened with kitchen knives, physically assaulted and verbally abused..

    .老师们被人用菜刀威胁,遭受人身侵犯和言语辱骂。

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  • 4、

    Milk rounds are threatened as customers switch to buying from supermarkets.

    随着顾客转而从超市购买牛奶,送牛奶的生意受到了威胁。

    ——柯林斯例句
  • 5、

    They threatened to expel him from his adoptive country.

    他们威胁将他驱逐出他的移居国。

    ——柯林斯例句
  • 6、

    He ordained his own priests, and threatened to ordain bishops.

    他自行任命了牧师,还扬言要任命主教。

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  • 7、

    She threatened to throw herself in front of a train.

    她威胁要卧轨。

    ——柯林斯例句
  • 8、

    Kaifu threatened to dissolve the Parliament and call an election.

    卡夫威胁要解散议会并举行选举。

    ——柯林斯例句
  • 9、

    He threatened to disinherit her if she refused to obey.

    他威胁说如果她拒绝服从就剥夺她的继承权。

    ——柯林斯例句
  • 10、

    In industry, a worker who is grossly insubordinate is threatened with discharge.

    在企业内部,拒不服从指令的工人会面临遭解雇的威胁。

    ——柯林斯例句
  • 11、

    She threatened to publicly expose his double life if he left her.

    她威胁说如果他离开她,她就将他双重人格的生活方式公之于众。

    ——柯林斯例句
  • 12、

    When the political climate tilted towards fundamentalism he was threatened.

    当政治气候倾向于原教旨主义时,他受到了威胁。

    ——柯林斯例句
  • 13、

    Senator Seymour has threatened a filibuster to block the bill.

    参议员西摩威胁说要发表长篇演说来阻挠议案通过。

    ——柯林斯例句
  • 14、

    He held her at knifepoint and threatened to kill her.

    他用刀将她挟持并威胁说要杀了她。

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  • 15、

    He had threatened to brain him then and there.

    他当时就威胁要打爆他的脑袋。

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