| 单词 | threat |
| 释义 | threat (θret ) Word forms: threats 1. variable noun B2 A threat to a person or thing is a danger that something unpleasant might happen to them. A threat is also the cause of this danger. Some couples see single people as a threat to their relationships. [+ to] The Hurricane Center warns people not to take the threat of tropical storms lightly. [+ of] All countries in the region had the right to protect themselves against external threat. 2. countable noun [oft NOUN to-infinitive] B2 A threat is a statement by someone that they will do something unpleasant, especially if you do not do what they want. He may be forced to carry out his threat to resign. The writer remains in hiding after threats by former officials of the ousted dictatorship. [+ by] The last journalist to interview him received a death threat. Synonyms: threatening remark, menace, commination, intimidatory remark 3. under threat phrase B2 If a person or thing is under threat, there is a danger that something unpleasant might be done to them, or that they might cease to exist. His position as leader will be under threat at a party congress due next month. They live daily under threat of violence. [+ of] Even the most security-conscious computer user is under constant threat from computer viruses. Britain's rarest breeding birds are under threat from fanatical and selfish egg collectors. Collocations: threat of violence His father's rages were one thing, but the threat of violence was worse. Times, Sunday Times Violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in a family, especially when inflicted on its most vulnerable members. Times, Sunday Times Executions for political crimes are extremely rare and confined to persons involved in violence or the threat of violence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This linkage between a personal attack and property weakened as societies developed but the threat of violence remains a key factor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For what seemed an eternity we provided a stream of cries, entreaties, bribes, threats of violence, tickling, shouts, warnings of imminent but imagined fire and flood, all to no avail. Times, Sunday Times Here, there's just the vague threat of a libel suit. Times, Sunday Times But this kind of vague threat brazenly ignores two factors. Times, Sunday Times It's more of a twin-guitar looming, rising to a twin-guitar vague threat. Times, Sunday Times And a vague threat that guests might visit didn't qualify either. Times, Sunday Times Both seem to pose a vague threat to social order. Times, Sunday Times That veiled threat has been interpreted as a bargaining stance for the forthcoming labour negotiations with the players' union over a new collective-bargaining agreement. Times, Sunday Times The veiled threat of a competition inquiry hit a raw nerve across the banking industry. Times, Sunday Times All of which might find widespread support, if it wasn't backed by the veiled threat of industrial chaos. Times, Sunday Times The banks responded with yet another thinly veiled threat to end so-called free banking. Times, Sunday Times Was it a lone stranger or was this a veiled threat by government forces? Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 威胁 Japanese: 脅し |
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