英:[ˈθretnɪŋ]
美:[ˈθretnɪŋ]
英:[ˈθretnɪŋ]
美:[ˈθretnɪŋ]
threat·en·ing
thre t nihng
词根:threat
adj.threatened 受到威胁的
adv.threateningly 威胁地;危险地;险恶地
n.threat 威胁,恐吓;凶兆
v.threatened 威胁(threaten的过去分词)
vi.threaten 威胁;可能来临
vt.threaten 威胁;恐吓;预示
Adjective
1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
"a baleful look"
"forbidding thunderclouds"
"his tone became menacing"
"ominous rumblings of discontent"
"sinister storm clouds"
"a sinister smile"
"his threatening behavior"
"ugly black clouds"
"the situation became ugly"
2. darkened by clouds;
"a heavy sky"
The first known use of threatening was in 1530
1 Not when invaders were threatening the Empire and the populous had to be placated.
2 Ferrets had cornered a band of shrews and were threatening to massacre them when a column of otters sprang to the rescue.
3 His words slowly relaxed her threatening attitude.
他的言语慢慢地缓和了她的威胁态度。
4 Harry thought fast, his scar still prickling, his head threatening to split again.
5 Jack Frost was threatening to kill the new plants.
霜降危及新作物的存活。
6 How was it that his voice was so cool when the hand holding the chalk was so tense, the veins sticking out, as if threatening to burst through the flesh?
7 On May 5, a property owners’ association convened a raucous meeting, exhorting white residents to hold the line against the threatening wave moving toward them out of the Black Belt.
8 Now, the flames of abolition were spreading and growing hotter, threatening a firestorm that could destroy the nation.
9 She kept threatening to get it tattooed on her ankle when she turned eighteen.
10 People slamming, shoving, scrambling like ants as the hill presses in, threatening to crush their fragile shells.
11 The mountains swung a half-circle around a lake black and sullen below threatening clouds.
12 Violent posts stay up, despite Truth Social rules All three sites have policies discouraging threatening or violent rhetoric.
13 The threatening voice went on and on, daring him, ordering him, provoking him, rousing him for battle—but always keeping him off, prodding him back.
14 He drives us all back down below, threatening to beat us boys with an oar if we don’t hurry.
15 The creatures were roaming city streets, threatening millions of New Yorkers.
16 "Tell me,” I said in a low, threatening voice, "or I’ll squeeze you till you pop.”
17 Rain lashes against me, threatening to hurl me into the water.
18 It also said the situation was threatening the financial stability of at the region.
并称这种情况已经威胁到该地区的金融稳定.
19 The street was as black, as threatening, as enigmatic as before.
20 economists warning of a threatening recession
1 危险
riskful near hot serious dangerous tight risky hazardous unsafe adventurous rum stirring uncanny precarious perilous dicey parlous chancy pestilent venturesome pestiferous trappy unchancy chanceful risk chance threat danger hazard peril menace jeopardy uncanniness high wire
3 威胁的
4 险恶的
hard ugly nasty foul wicked ominous forbidding frowning intemperate inclement beastly dark baleful heavy sinister menacing surly
5 危险的
riskful near hot serious dangerous tight risky hazardous unsafe adventurous rum stirring uncanny precarious perilous dicey parlous chancy pestilent venturesome pestiferous trappy unchancy chanceful high wire
6 恐吓
menacing menacingly threat intimidation terrorization threaten racketeer cow bully intimidate frighten menace bulldoze daunt ship up terrorize put the fear of God into you minatory intimidatory blackmail chill horrify scare into doing put the fear of God into lean on blustering denunciatory strike thunder denunciation bravado bluff denounce bluster concuss affright outface gally mau-mau thunderbolt