to threaten

基本解释

We cannot allow the global financial and economic crisis to threaten the work of those institutions.
我们决不允许全球金融与经济危机对这些机构的工作构成威胁。
The US, Britain, and France want to threaten oil and gas sanctions if Tehran does not suspend the enrichment of uranium, but those threats carry less weight without Russian support.
如果德黑兰不暂停铀浓缩活动，美国、英国和法国则想以石油和天然气制裁来威胁伊朗，但没有俄罗斯的支持，这些威胁的份量将大打折扣。
The eastern rebels in Benghazi are too far away to threaten Tripoli directly. But even they are showing signs of progress.
处于东部城市班加西的反对派由于距离首都太远而无法形成直接威胁，但他们仍在前进。

But intensive logging in this part of Finland has started to threaten the work and culture of this group.
They will only put it out if it's a fire in the home of a subscriber or if it starts to spread and to threaten the home of a subscriber.
他们只扑灭发生在会员家里的火灾,或者是即将蔓延到他们会员家里的火灾。
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I was one of those kids, and I remember rather vividly walking through the hall way of my high school having people split me, call me names, threaten to beat me up.
我还清楚地记得有这么一个孩子,穿过我所在的高中的大厅,让周围的人朝我吐痰，骂脏话，威胁着要把我狠狠打一顿。
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Glaciers also began expanding on Greenland, soon to threaten Norse settlements on the island.
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