threat

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n. 恐吓, 恶兆, 威胁 [经] 威胁

发音

UK /θɹɛt/
US /θɹɛt/
AU /θɹet/
NZ /θɹet/
SCOT /θɾɛt/
其它 /θɾɛt/
IE /tɹɛt/
/fɹɛt/

词形变化

threats 复数 threats threated threatest threating threats 三单 threating 现在分词 threated 过去式 threated 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

威胁，恐吓；凶兆

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    An expression of intent to injure or punish another.

    威胁

  2. 2.

    An indication of potential or imminent danger.

    危险

    Verifying and addressing actual threats is not paranoia.

  3. 3.

    A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.

v.
  1. 1.

    To press; urge; compel.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To threaten.

    古体 及物
  3. 3.

    To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.

    不及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

terror menace scourge

上位词 6

danger warning actor worker declaration doer

下位词 3

menace commination yellow peril

相关短语

threat actor threat actors triple threat （美）三面手 idle threat second-order threat death threat 死亡威胁 empty threat stereotype threat

词源

From Middle English threte, thret, thrat, thræt, threat, from Old English þrēat (“crowd, swarm, troop, army, press; pressure, trouble, calamity, oppression, force, violence, threat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrautaz, closely tied to Proto-Germanic *þrautą (“displeasure, complaint, grievance, labour, toil”), from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to squeeze, push, press”). Cognate with Scots thret, threte, threit (“threat”), Middle High German drōz (“annoyance, disgust, horror, terror, fright”), Middle Low German drōt (“threat, menace, danger”), Faroese treyt (“struggle, labour, distress”), Icelandic þraut (“struggle, labour, distress”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian труд (trud, “work, labour”), Czech trud (“effot, hard work”), Polish trud (“hard work”), Serbo-Croatian trȗd (“effort, hard work”).

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