Threat

(noun.) declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another; 'his threat to kill me was quite explicit'.

(noun.) a warning that something unpleasant is imminent; 'they were under threat of arrest'.

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• He dreaded to hear that something had been said to Mary--he felt as if he were listening to a threat rather than a warning. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It took the form of a threat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Trot, my dear, a vain threat! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She told it all every word without a threat, without a murmur--she did--did she not? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• And she worked there one day, as we have described, to show how perfectly she scorned the threat. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Usually her welcome was a reprimand or a threat. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Meyler, having, tried every other argument to induce me to leave Charmouth and Lord Worcester, now ventured on a threat! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The threat is qualified. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Meanwhile the last moments of the performance seemed to gain an added brightness from the hovering threat of the curtain. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• You mean the threat in her husband's letter? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Twice they actually marched right out of Rome, threatening to make a new city higher up the Tiber, and twice this threat proved conclusive. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Under a threat? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• But one monarch in the world was alive to the threat of the new power that lay in the hands of Cyrus. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A worse threat than was conveyed in his manner of uttering the name, could hardly have escaped him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• If the monster executed his threat, death was inevitable; yet, again, I considered whether my marriage would hasten my fate. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Kitty, who took all these threats in a serious light, began to cry. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• By dint of alternate threats, promises, and bribes, the lady in question was ultimately prevailed upon to undertake the commission. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of fear. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• For sixteen years he had to resist the reproaches of wife and children, and the threats of neighbors. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He had, in truth, gone too far to recede; and yet, in Rowena's present condition, she could not be acted on either by argument or threats. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness; but they confirm me in a resolution of not creating you a companion in vice. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Neither threats nor coaxing could avail: he could not count on any persistent fear nor on any promise. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I do not like these veiled threats. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• There are no threats in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• No threats of torture or death, no bribes, however fabulous, would move him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• To judge by his threats, he would have employed arbitrary, even cruel, means to advance the cause of freedom and equality. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Fanny sighed alone at the window till scolded away by Mrs. Norris's threats of catching cold. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• But no pleas, or threats, or promises of reward could move him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Besides, threats were uttered of forcing me to return to bondage. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mere threats, said Meyler. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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