threat
threat 英 [θret] 美 [θrɛt]
n. 威胁，恐吓
名词复数:threats
- A threat is an impending danger that has the potential to cause serious harm — it just hasn't done so yet. In The Wizard of Oz, the huge tornado that spiraled across the Kansas countryside posed a threat to the little girl named Dorothy in its path.
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- n. 威胁，恐吓
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1. to make threats against sb
对某人进行威胁
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2. She is prepared to carry out her threat to resign.
她以辞职作为要挟，已准备好付诸行动。
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3. There is a real threat of war.
确有战争的征兆。
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4. He received death threats from right-wing groups.
他收到了右翼团体的死亡恐吓。
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5. Drugs pose a major threat toour society.
毒品成为对社会的一大威胁。
- threat (n.) Old English þreat "crowd, troop," also "oppression, coercion, menace," related to þreotan "to trouble, weary," from Proto-Germanic *thrautam (source also of Dutch verdrieten, German verdrießen "to vex"), from PIE *treud- "to push, press squeeze" (source also of Latin trudere "to press, thrust," Old Church Slavonic trudu "oppression," Middle Irish trott "quarrel, conflict," Middle Welsh cythrud "torture, torment, afflict"). Sense of "conditional declaration of hostile intention" was in Old English.
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