| 单词 | menace |
| 释义 | men·ace I. 1. a. < menaces of damnation — T.S.Eliot > < spitting angry menaces at her — Arnold Bennett > < would advance with simulated menace — Osbert Lancaster > < exploding in menaces and threats of vengeance — George Meredith > b. < ominous silence of the woods held no menace for her — Osbert Sitwell > < the menace of the European war to American interests — C.B.Forcey > < the sky became leaden with vague menace — Adrian Bell > < with a hysterical cry of menace — C.G.D.Roberts > c. < in the menace and confusion of the … postwar period — Hans Weigel > : impending evil < a sense of menace, of unease, runs through their conversation — T.H.White b.1915 > 2. a. < tuberculosis and sphilis were major menaces — T.H.Fielding > < the intoxicated motorist is a menace to life and limb — Wayne Hughes > < the menaces of air, such as tornado and whirlwind — Osbert Sitwell > b. < that boy's a menace > < her friends were beginning to find her a menace — Guy McCrone > II. transitive verb 1. a. < menaced him with immediate expulsion — G.B.Shaw > b. < menacing the emperor's displeasure — S.T.Coleridge > < he menaced ruin — H.R.Trevor-Roper > 2. < the ferries were menaced by floating mines — P.W.Thompson > < mature bolls are menaced by the army worm — American Guide Series: Arkansas > intransitive verb < the few snakes that menace with their mouths open — C.H.Curran & Carl Kauffeld > Synonyms: see threaten |
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