menace
常考释义
1.[c][ususing]~ (to sb/sth)威胁;危险的人(或物)a person or thing that causes, or may cause, serious damage, harm or danger
a new initiative aimed at beating the menace of illegal drugs旨在打击非法毒品威胁的新举措
2.[u]令人恐怖的氛围;危险气氛an atmosphere that makes you feel threatened or frightened
a sense/an air/a hint of menace in his voice他的话音里的威胁语气╱腔调╱意味
3.[c][ususing](informal)烦人的人(或事物);引起麻烦的人(或事物)a person or thing that is annoying or causes trouble
4.[pl]恐吓;威胁threats that sb will cause harm if they do not get what they are asking for
to demand money with menaces勒索钱财
1.~ sth/sb对…构成危险;危及;威胁到to be a possible danger to sth/sb
The forests are being menaced by major development projects.大型开发项目正在危及森林。
The only hint of menace was the number of people wearing face masks. But that was to keep off flu, not to resemble the Arab street.
唯一的威胁感来自若干带口罩的民众,但他们只是为了防流感,并不是仿效阿拉伯世界的街头起义。
Bath twice a day to be really clean. once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
一天洗两次澡是真干净,一天洗一次澡也说的过去,一周洗一次只是避免对公共场合造成污染。
In response, Soros called for the removal of Mahathir from his post, as he was a 'menace' to Malaysia.
索罗斯做出回应,要求马哈蒂尔退位,称他是马来西亚的“危险人物”。
There was no menace in her tone, no threat nor promise of danger; merely a relaxed, even concerned, conscience.
没有任何威胁,在她的基调,没有威胁,也不承诺的危险;仅仅是一个宽松,甚至担心,良心。
Instead of an apology of any sort, the salesperson said, to her face, "I hate having to deal with PRC girls like you, you are a menace. "
我们没有得到任何形式的道歉,这个销售人员反而当着她的面说:“我讨厌和像你一样的中国女孩做生意,你们都是麻烦人物。”
he had been blinded and deceived by his own underlings, and even found himself under the menace of his unruly workers.
他是被那些没用的走狗们所蒙蔽,所欺骗,而且被那些跋扈的工人所威胁了!
Still, his throat felt as if he'd swallowed the rock in his hand. Because the whisper came again, low, personal, and husked with menace.
尽管这样想,鲍比还是感觉喉咙发紧,仿佛吞下了手中的岩石。因为低语声再次传来,低沉,有目的性并且带着威胁。
Added to the cold menace of his pale eyes and the authority with which he spoke, even Summerville took a step back.
还有他苍白的眼睛的冷酷的威胁,以及他说话的权威,连索姆威勒也吓得后退了一步。
Yet it has no choice, for two reasons: North Korea is a nuclear menace; and some of its people risk starvation.
然而外界别无选择,基于两个原因:朝鲜的核威胁,它的一部分人民面临饥饿的威胁。
In China's rise, Jacques tends to see menace, albeit of a cultural rather than a militaristic nature.
对于中国的崛起,雅克倾向于视之为威胁,但他认为这种威胁存在于文化层面,而不具有军国主义性质。
For decades it had traded on the idea of a lurking menace, some faceless demon eating away at the Scandinavian dream.
数十年以来它利用了潜藏的威胁这个借口,说一些不知道是谁的恶魔正蚕食着北欧人的梦想。
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace .
因为我无法预见原子能在长期来说会有正面的效用,我必须说,目前而言它是一个威胁。
Turns out the ship has been taken over by an evil and really gross alien menace that turns human corpses into horrible deformed zombies.
飞船已经被一个邪恶的、面目可憎的危险外星生物侵占,它能将人类的尸体比为可怕而畸形的僵尸。
Jupiter is just as much a menace as a savior, he said.
他说,木星是个救世主,但还是一个大魔头。
Dickinson was troubled from a young age by the "deepening menace" of death, especially the deaths of those who were close to her.
狄金森从很小的时候起就受到来自死亡“不断加深的威胁”,特别是那些与她最亲近的人之死。
The controversy is only the latest in a string of protesters' attempts to save Mexican culture from what they see as a creeping menace.
这是最近的一场争端,是反对者为了使墨西哥文化免受在他们看来是一种潜在的危险而做出的多方努力。
I wondered whether the stillness on the face of the immensity looking at us two were meant as an appeal or as a menace.
我不知道,正在注视我们两个的那种博大无极的外表所呈现出的沉默,意思是在呼吁还是威胁?
Mary Queen of Scots was a menace because of her Catholic and Guisard connections as much as for her English claim.
苏格兰的玛丽女王之所以构成威胁是因为她的天主教信仰和她与吉斯家族的关系,还有她企图对英国的索取。
The plan to fight the Western Hemisphere's worst oceanic menace is to turn it into a gourmet delicacy.
这个和西半球最大的海洋威胁搏斗的计画就是把它变成一道美食佳肴。
Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years. Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
在愤怒和悲伤的天地之外,耸立的不只是恐怖的影子,还有,面对未来的威胁你会发现,我无所畏惧。
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