menace
menace 英 [ˈmenəs] 美 [ˈmɛnɪs]
n. 威胁；恐吓 v. 威胁；恐吓
进行时:menacing 过去式:menaced 过去分词:menaced 第三人称单数:menaces 名词复数:menaces
- If it's threatening you or otherwise posing some sort of danger, then it's a menace. Angry rabid dogs, smog clouds, and annoying little brothers are all probable menaces.
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- n. 威胁；恐吓
- v. 威胁；恐吓
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1. beating the menace of illegal drugs
打击非法毒品威胁
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2. a sense of menace in his voice, an air of menace in his voice, a hint of menace in his voice
他的话音里的威胁语气╱腔调╱意味
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3. to demand money with menaces
勒索钱财
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4. The forests are being menaced by major development projects.
大型开发项目正在危及森林。
- menace (n.) c. 1300, "declaration of hostile intent," also "act of threatening," from Old French menace "menace, threat" (9c.), from Vulgar Latin minacia "threat, menace" (also source of Spanish amenaza, Italian minaccia), singular of Latin minaciæ "threatening things," from minax (genitive minacis) "threatening," from minari "threaten; jut, project," from minæ "threats; projecting points," from PIE root *men-(2) "to project." Applied to persons from 1936.
- menace (v.) c. 1300, from Old French menacer "threaten, urge" (11c.), Anglo-French manasser, from Vulgar Latin *minaciare "to threaten," from minacia "menace, threat" (see menace (n.)). Related: Menaced; menacing.
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