threat

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /θɹɛt/    美 /θɹɛt/|/θɹet/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
    — There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.
  2. An indication of potential or imminent danger.
    — Verifying and addressing actual threats is not paranoia.
  3. A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
    — Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.
动词 v.
  1. To press; urge; compel. transitive
  2. To threaten. archaic,transitive
    — An hideous Geant horrible and hye, / That with his talnesse seemd to threat the skye […]
  3. To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten. intransitive

词形变化

threats plural threats present,singular,third-person threating participle,present threated participle,past threated past

词汇关系

近义词
intimidation warning menace threat
反义词
protection
下位词
blackmail extortion sabre-rattling ultimatum
衍生词
biothreat counterthreat cyberthreat death threat empty threat idle threat immunothreat nonthreat second-order threat stereotype threat threat actor threatful threatless threatmate threatproof threatscape threatsome threatspot throffer triple threat
相关词
threaten threatening or else omen danger

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From Middle English threten, from Old English þrēatian (“to press, oppress, repress, correct, threaten”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to squeeze, push, press”). Cognate with Scots threit (“to threaten”), Dutch verdrieten (“to sadden, displease”), Middle Low German drēten (“to threaten”), German verdrießen (“to bother, vex”), Faroese tróta (“to run out”), Icelandic þrjóta (“to run out, end”), Norwegian tryte (“to run out, end”), Swedish tryda (“to run out”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌸𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽 (usþriutan, “to harass, torment”), Latin trūdō (“to push”), Albanian ndrydh (“to sprain, supress, withdraw”), Belarusian трудзіць (trudzicʹ, “to burden, tire”), Bulgarian тру̀дя (trùdja, “to work”), Czech trudit (“to toil, worry”), Polish trudzić (“to toil, worry”), Russian труди́ть (trudítʹ, “to burden, tire”), Serbo-Croatian trúditi (“to try, make and effot”), Ukrainian труди́ти (trudýty, “to toil, tire”).
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