threaten

英 ['θret(?)n] 美['θr?tn]
  • vt. 威脅；恐嚇；預(yù)示
  • vi. 威脅；可能來(lái)臨

考試真題

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月閱讀原文

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月聽(tīng)力原文

They showed threatening, pleasant and neutral expressions.

出自-2017年6月聽(tīng)力原文

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

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

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月聽(tīng)力原文

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

出自-2015年12月聽(tīng)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月聽(tīng)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月閱讀原文

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

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

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

出自-2013年6月聽(tīng)力原文

What does the man say threatens the existence of railways?

出自-2010年12月聽(tīng)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年考研翻譯原文

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年考研閱讀原文

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年考研翻譯原文

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年考研閱讀原文