threaten
美 [ˈθret(ə)n] 
英 ['θret(ə)n]
- v.威胁；危及；恐吓；扬言要
- 网络预示；威胁点；有….的危险
词形变化
第三人称单数：threatens 现在分词：threatening 过去式：threatened 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | [t] 扬言要；威胁；恐吓to say that you will cause trouble, hurt sb, etc. if you do not get what you want |
| They broke my windows and threatened me. 他们砸碎我的窗子并威胁我。 |
| The attacker threatened them with a gun. 袭击者用枪威胁他们。 |
| He was threatened with dismissal if he continued to turn up late for work. 他受到警告，如果继续上班迟到，就被辞退。 |
| The threatened strike has been called off. 扬言要进行的罢工被取消了。 |
| The hijackers threatened to kill one passenger every hour if their demands were not met. 劫机者要挟说，如果他们的要求得不到满足，他们每过一小时就杀死一名乘客。 |
| They threatened that passengers would be killed. 他们要挟说要杀死乘客。 |
2. | [i][t] 预示凶兆；有…危险to seem likely to happen or cause sth unpleasant |
| A storm was threatening. 暴风雨即将来临。 |
| This dispute threatens to split the party. 这一分歧可能会造成党的分裂。 |
| The clouds threatened rain. 乌云密布预示大雨将至。 |
3. | [t] ~ sth 危及；对…构成威胁to be a danger to sth |
| Pollution is threatening marine life. 污染正危及海洋生物。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
If he does not meet those conditions, you can apply to the court for an order that he does not continue to threaten you with court action.
如果他不符合发送警告信的条件，你可向法院申请命令其不再继续以到法院起诉威胁你。
Now, tougher economic times threaten even that budget, and could mar plans for what was to have been a glorious Olympic legacy.
眼下经济紧缩的时期影响着这个预算，并且可能阻碍办一场显赫的奥运盛会的计划。
No one can see under the mask of me, no one can take advantage of these secrets to threaten me, destroy my life.
没有人能看到面具下的我，也没有人能够利用这些秘密来威胁我，破坏我的生活。
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”。
We're not trying to threaten the existence of any organization, but we're spreading the gospel of black nationalism.
我们没有设法威胁任何团体的存在，但是我们要散布黑人民族独立运动的福音。
"The challenges of our time threaten the peace and prosperity of every single nation and no one nation can meet them alone, " he said.
奥巴马说：“我们时代的各种挑战威胁着每一个国家的和平与繁荣，没有任何一个国家可以独自面对这些挑战。”
Such an outcome could injure the company's balance sheet or threaten its ability to survive as an independent company, analysts said.
分析人士说，这样一个结果可能令该公司的资产负债表受损，甚至危及该公司作为一家独立公司存续的能力。
It seems to threaten everything from emerging markets to the pretty earnings narrative of the market as a whole.
好像它会威胁到从新兴市场到市场盈利性故事所有的东西。
If you threaten to quit your job, even if it's a subtle suggestion, you better be ready to leave now.
如果你被威胁要离职，即使是一个小玩笑，你也要开始注意给自己找后路了。
If my dad reaches for his shirt when I'm out with him, I threaten to go home.
我和我爸出去的时候，如果我爸要撩起衣衫，我就威胁他要回家。
But every now and then the sky grows black, the rain comes down in sheets, and the winds threaten to obliterate our shabby encampments.
但天空不时地变黑，大雨倾盆落下，狂风威胁着我们那简陋的露营地。
That leaves him free to stomp out at any time, or threaten another test, to get more of his way.
那将使他在任何时候随意践踏协议，或者威胁要进行试射，以获得更多利益。
But he would later threaten to have them arrested if they did not let him pass.
但是，后来他却对那些不让他进入的人进行威胁，扬言要逮捕他们。
After the plane had taken off, the hijacker would force his way into the pilot's cockpit and threaten him with a gun.
在飞机起飞后，劫机者强行进入飞行员的驾驶舱，并用枪威胁他。
So are officials' saber-rattling claims that some day China's economy will thrive enough to threaten that of the United States.
官方耀武扬威的宣称有朝一日中国经济将足以威胁到美国也非空穴来风。
They will only put it out if it's a fire in the home of a subscriber or if it starts to spread and to threaten the home of a subscriber.
他们只会帮助他们的付费客户灭火，或者如果火势蔓延，威胁到一个顾客的家，他们才会救火。
Chelsea continued to threaten, with Drogba looking lively up front, and a breakthrough looked increasingly likely.
切尔西继续威胁，德罗巴在前面看起来很活跃，看来一个突破很快就会出现了。
Mr. Carson said the seizure of Abyei could threaten what he called a road map for normal relations between the United States and Sudan.
卡尔森称，夺取阿卜耶伊会威胁他所谓的美国和苏丹正常关系的路线图。
Earlier, the White House said the leaks "could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security" .
早些时候，白宫称此次爆料“将美国人及其伙伴的生命置于危险境地，并危及我们的国家安全。”
Some fool tried to threaten me with it and I was forced to show him the error of his ways, if you know what I mean.
有个笨蛋想要用它来威胁我，而我迫不得已让他了解了自己的错误，如果你明白我意思的话。
Not until the Great Depression of 1929 did widespread starvation threaten the American people.
一直到一九二九年大萧条来临，广泛的饥饿才威胁到美国人民。
It will greatly threaten the security of this country.
它将会极大地威胁本国的安全。
He doesn't threaten easily.
他不那么容易被吓住。
Bernanke also said he had not directed then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to threaten to fire management.
伯南克亦表示，他从未指示当时的财长保尔森做出解雇管理层的威胁。
"People from the right came here to threaten us, to tell us that we had to leave, that . . . there could be a massacre. "
“右翼人士跑来威胁我们，告诫我们必须离开，否则……可能会有一场屠杀”。
China has no intention to threaten any country? s security, nor will it be party to any arms race.
中国无意去威胁任何国家的安全，也无意与任何国家进行军备竞赛。
but latterly he had begun to threaten her and say what he would do to her only for her dead mother 's sake .
但最近他开始威胁她，说要不是因为她死去的母亲的缘故，他会怎样对待她。
It will threaten for the children If adult can't unwind question of himself, This thing is happening everyday from everybody, besides me.
如果大人的心结未解，对孩子来说是一场灾难，这种事情每天都在上演，我也不例外。
Mr Obama ruled out a petrol-tax increase almost from the beginning of his presidency, saying it would threaten recovery.
奥巴马几乎从就职初期就排除了汽油税的增长，他说这会威胁到经济复苏。
Some of the president's other line-item vetoes were overruled in Congress, leading him to threaten legislators with dissolving the congress.
总统另一些在国会的单项否决权被推翻导致他以解散国会威胁立法委员。
Trying to extend the Java language risks creating corner cases that threaten the stability of the whole thing.
试图扩展Java语言会带来创建极端场景（cornercase）的风险，这些场景将威胁全局的稳定性。
You did not need to threaten me I was only trying to resolve this so I didnt have to purchase something that I did not want.
你不必威胁我，我只是想解决问题，所以，我不会买我不需要的东西。
On the flipside patents and intellectual property issues continued to threaten the survival and success of the open source ecosystem.
但是反面的专利和知识产权仍将继续阻止开源生态系统的生存和发展。下面从以下几方面来谈2007年的开源社区。
And he is concerned that this problem could threaten the stability of the banking system if the economy fails to recover.
克鲁格曼还担心，若经济无法复苏，这一问题可能危及银行体系的稳定。
The critical advantage of a cost leadership strategy is that the leader can threaten competitors with a price war if they do not behave.
成本领导战略最根本的的利益在于价格战中能威胁那些缺乏没有因应行动的竞争者。
Do not threaten him with punishment if he resists the actions you desire.
不要因为他不按照你的做就威胁要惩罚他。
So if a few masters of the universe threaten to leave, where are they going to go?
所以，如果说一些名人威胁着要离开，他们能去哪？
In an age of widespread global trade and travel, new and existing diseases can cross national borders and threaten our collective security.
在一个全球贸易和旅游广泛发展的时代，新的和已有的疾病能够超出国家边界，威胁我们的集体安全。
Our evaluation: The parallel Web is a technique already in use, and adopting it does not threaten the meaning of any current Web sites.
我们的评估：并行Web是一项已经在使用的技术，采用这种技术并不会威胁当前Web站点的意义。
Ground collapse will seriously threaten the mine production security and destroy the surface ecological environment.
地表塌陷严重威胁着矿山安全生产，破坏地表生三态环境。
Finally, I had to threaten not to allow my own sales-tax bill to pass if the testing wasn't passed along with it.
最后，我不得不威胁说，如果教师考试议案不能与我自己提出的销售税议案一起通过的话，我宁愿不让后者被通过。
"This resolution will give us new tools to impair North Korea's ability to proliferate and threaten international stability, " she said.
迪卡洛说：“这项决议赋予我们新的手段，削弱北韩进行扩散和威胁国际稳定的能力。”
He cared for the sheep, if there was something around that was going to threaten the sheep; he took care of the situation.
大卫如何照顾他的羊？若羊群遇到任何威胁，他就会把它铲除。
