intimidate
美 [ɪnˈtɪmɪˌdeɪt] 
英 [ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt]
词形变化
第三人称单数：intimidates 现在分词：intimidating 过去式：intimidated 同义词
英汉双解
1. | ~ sb (into sth/into doing sth) 恐吓；威胁to frighten or threaten sb so that they will do what you want |
| They were accused of intimidating people into voting for them. 他们被控胁迫选民投他们的票。 |
| She refused to be intimidated by their threats. 她没有被他们的威胁吓倒。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
We object to any effort to intimidate US corporations or those of any nation engaged in legitimate economic activity.
美方极力反对任何威胁美国公司或他国企业在该地区从事合法经济活动的行为。
It's just like the Raiders back in the day. They used to get off the bus with the all-black on, they just tried to intimidate people.
这就像过去的游击队那样，全身穿着黑色，从公车上下来，试图恐吓人们。
Mr. Murdoch's 'newspapers were used to bully and intimidate political leaders and individual politicians, ' he said.
他说，默多克的报纸被用来欺负、恐吓政治领袖和政界人士。
It had a set of mental shackles to deceive, threaten and intimidate people.
它有一套蒙骗、恐吓、胁迫群众的精神“紧箍咒”。
But whether a whale primarily intends its song to impress females or to intimidate other males with its swanky style remains unclear.
然而，它的主要目的是吸引异性，还是用时髦的风格恐吓其他雄性鲸鱼，我们不得而知。
Palfrey threatened for months to release her client list, which led prosecutors to accuse her of trying to intimidate potential witnesses.
骑用的马威胁月对释放她客户名单，哪一个引导检察官责备她尝试威胁潜能证人。
They have no law to stop you, so they're just trying to intimidate you.
他们用法律阻止不了你，就只有恐吓你了。
Another theory floating around was that Rwandan Hutu extremists in the camps were trying to intimidate other refugees.
另一种流行的推测是难民营中的胡图族极端分子企图恐吓其它难民。
First get rid of his own thorn in the side, and the second is interested in joining the police force to intimidate the ordinary civilians.
其一除掉自己的眼中钉，其二就是恫吓有意加入警察队伍的普通平民。
True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home.
衡量真正领导能力的尺度不是压制异己或恫吓骚扰国内政治反对派的力量。
Red Riding Hood, however, was confident enough in her own budding sexuality that such obvious Freudian imagery did not intimidate her.
可是小红帽青春萌动极其自信，以至于对大森林产生的弗洛伊德式的恐惧心理意象没有吓倒她。
"Meanwhile, if his eyes bore into yours as he's talking, 37 he might be trying to intimidate you. "
演讲导师DianeDiResta《动人的报告》一书作者说，“同时如果他在讲话的时候严厉地盯住你眼睛看，那么37可能是想震慑住你。”
The violence unleashed by the traffickers looked like a co-ordinated attempt to intimidate Mr Cabral into abandoning his plans.
毒品贩子发动的暴力事件，看起来像是两大帮派共谋意图威吓SérgioCabral放弃保安计画。
Courts have refused to hear their case and officials have tried to intimidate a lawyer representing them, the activists say.
消息人士说，法院拒绝受理他们的案件，官员也促使胁迫一名律师为他们做代理。
Mrs Clinton said it was an attempt to intimidate Mr Ford.
克林顿女士说，他们这么做是想威胁福特先生。
When Mr Yao first played in the US, his coach wanted him to intimidate opponents by slam-dunking the ball.
当姚明刚到美国打球时，教练让他用扣篮来震慑对手。
That means we have a stake in working together to solve common problems, rather than trying to browbeat or intimidate the other into action.
那意味着我们有必要合作，共同解决共同的问题，而不是试图恫吓或胁迫另一方的行动。
marketers use their sexiest messages and most popular male models to tempt or intimidate the readership of Men's Health.
商家用他们最为性感的信息和最为流行的男性模特来诱导或胁迫《男性健康》的读者群。
It now, however, seems more likely that this dramatic fin was for show, to intimidate enemies and woo potential mates.
但更新的研究则倾向于认为这个背鳍更多的是用来展示的，其作用包括恐吓敌人，或者吸引异性。
Harry Truman was an indifferent president who needlessly dropped A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, designed to intimidate Stalin.
哈里·杜鲁门是个能力不怎么样的总统，就是他在广岛和长崎丢了那两颗可有可无的原子弹，而这只是为了震慑斯大林。
James Carville, a political adviser to Bill Clinton, wanted to be reincarnated as the bond market so he could "intimidate everybody" .
比尔•克林顿的政治顾问詹姆斯•卡维尔曾幻想成为债券市场的化身，这样他就能“恐吓任何人”。
The package did include 60 Black Hawk helicopters, which Mr Bush had not approved, but these will hardly intimidate China.
售台武器方案中列有布什之前未批准的60架“黑鹰”直升机，但是它们几乎吓唬不了中国。
They laugh because you intimidate them. But if you'd stood your ground, you might have earned their respect.
他们笑是因为你威胁到他们了，但若是你能对峙下去，你会蠃得他们的尊敬。
Only give participants one task at a time. More than this may intimidate them, or alter their approach to the test.
一个事件只给参与者一个任务，这样会让他们更快或者改变他们到达测试的路径。
This is a year to dethrone terrorist's spirits that try to intimidate the nations through spiritual warfare.
这是罢黜企图藉著属灵战争威吓万国的恐怖之灵的一年。
eg. The gang tried to intimidate the bank manager.
那帮歹徒企图恐吓银行经理。
They tried to fool people or intimidate them by quoting a phrase or two from Comrade Mao Zedong.
他们引用毛泽东同志的某些片言只语来骗人、吓唬人。
Taken together, these new laws are not as likely to be consistently enforced as much as they are meant to intimidate.
总的来看，这些新出台的法律条款应该不会一直强制执行，执行频率达不到预想状态。
And in many conflict zones, sexual violence is deliberately and systematically used to intimidate women and whole communities.
在许多冲突区，蓄意和系统地利用性暴力来恐吓妇女和整个社区。
The wolves use reproof or the threat of it, to intimidate the paying customers or deflect suspicion from themselves.
这些披着羊皮的狼假借责备，或者威胁的手段来要挟他们的客户，免得他们怀疑并摒弃自己。
Free societies do not intimidate through cruelty and conquest, and open societies do not threaten the world with mass murder.
自由的社会不通过残暴和掠夺进行恐吓；开放的社会不会以大规模屠杀威胁世界。
With the police out of commission, the army uses thugs to intimidate its critics.
没有经过授权的警察，军队利用恶棍来恐吓他的批评者。
Standing your ground in when facing tricky dilemmas or in the face of those who intimidate you was challenging enough.
会遇到一些棘手的问题，或者是对你造成威胁的挑战。
EXAMPLE: The arrogant manager was always using jargon no one else understand because he liked to intimidate people.
那位傲慢的经理总是使用谁也听不懂的语言，因为他喜欢吓唬人。
"What a disgrace for an attempt to intimidate the foreign press" and then, after a brief pose, the real point of the call.
“用这种方式威胁外国媒体真的很卑鄙，”然后又装模作样了一会儿，电话那头才说出了真正的意图。
Intimidate him into not calling his mother.
威胁他不能给他妈妈打电话
Whoever killed these individuals wanted to intimidate survivors as well, he asserts.
他断言，杀死这些人的凶手还意图籍此恫吓幸存者。
Mr Ali's lawyer, Scott Bullock, argues that this is "clearly designed to intimidate" Mr Ali into giving up.
扎赫的律师斯科特•布洛克表示这“明显是有意吓唬”扎赫，以使他放弃申诉。
The harsh living conditions are one of the things that intimidate volunteers.
当地艰苦的居住环境就是让很多志愿者退却的一大原因。
But the computer didn't intimidate her, and in one semester, she'd begun to read at her proper grade level.
但她对计算机毫不畏惧，仅仅—二个学期，她的阅读能力就达到了她这个年级应有的水平。
