threaten, menace
这组词共同的意思是“威胁,恐吓”。它们的区别是：
threaten指如不服从将会有严重后果,以此相威胁,迫使别人干某事或不许别人干某事; menace多指用目光、行动或武器等对别人进行恐吓。
threaten，menace
这两个动词均有“威胁、恐吓”之意。
threaten侧重扬言要对不服从者给予惩罚，有时指某种情况所预示的恶兆。
menace系正式用词，着重以脸色或某种意志给以威胁，而不用语言明白表示出来。
- 词义辨析
- 双语例句
1、
Underneath this image of normalcy, addiction threatened to rip this family apart.
在这一切正常的表象下潜伏的是将使这个家庭四分五裂的毒瘾。
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2、
30 percent of reptiles, birds, and fish are currently threatened with extinction.
目前，30%的爬行动物、鸟类和鱼类面临灭绝的危险。
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3、
Teachers were threatened with kitchen knives, physically assaulted and verbally abused..
.老师们被人用菜刀威胁，遭受人身侵犯和言语辱骂。
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4、
Milk rounds are threatened as customers switch to buying from supermarkets.
随着顾客转而从超市购买牛奶，送牛奶的生意受到了威胁。
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5、
They threatened to expel him from his adoptive country.
他们威胁将他驱逐出他的移居国。
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6、
He ordained his own priests, and threatened to ordain bishops.
他自行任命了牧师，还扬言要任命主教。
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7、
She threatened to throw herself in front of a train.
她威胁要卧轨。
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8、
Kaifu threatened to dissolve the Parliament and call an election.
卡夫威胁要解散议会并举行选举。
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9、
He threatened to disinherit her if she refused to obey.
他威胁说如果她拒绝服从就剥夺她的继承权。
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10、
In industry, a worker who is grossly insubordinate is threatened with discharge.
在企业内部，拒不服从指令的工人会面临遭解雇的威胁。
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11、
She threatened to publicly expose his double life if he left her.
她威胁说如果他离开她，她就将他双重人格的生活方式公之于众。
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12、
When the political climate tilted towards fundamentalism he was threatened.
当政治气候倾向于原教旨主义时，他受到了威胁。
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13、
Senator Seymour has threatened a filibuster to block the bill.
参议员西摩威胁说要发表长篇演说来阻挠议案通过。
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14、
He held her at knifepoint and threatened to kill her.
他用刀将她挟持并威胁说要杀了她。
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15、
He had threatened to brain him then and there.
他当时就威胁要打爆他的脑袋。
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- 相关短语
- threatened species受胁[物]种;
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