N-COUNT 威胁;危险人物;祸害 If you say that someone or something is a menace to other people or things, you mean that person or thing is likely to cause serious harm.
In my view you are a menace to the public. 在我看来,你对公众是个祸害。
...the menace of fascism... 法西斯主义的威胁
Excessive drinking is a social menace. 过度饮酒是一种社会公害。
N-COUNT 惹麻烦的人(或物);惹人讨厌的人(或物) You can refer to someone or something as a menace when you want to say that they cause you trouble or annoyance.
You're a menace to my privacy, Kenworthy... 肯沃西,你这人真讨厌,居然侵犯我的隐私。
As I have said earlier in this book, bad shoes are a menace. 正如我在本书前面说过的那样,劣质的鞋子会很麻烦。
N-UNCOUNT 威胁性;危险气氛 Menace is a quality or atmosphere that gives you the feeling that you are in danger or that someone wants to harm you.
There is a pervading sense of menace. 有一种危机四伏的感觉。
...a voice full of menace. 充满威胁的声音
VERB 危及;威胁 If you say that one thing menaces another, you mean that the first thing is likely to cause the second thing serious harm.
The European states retained a latent capability to menace Britain's own security. 欧洲国家仍具有威胁英国自身安全的潜在能力。
VERB 威胁;恐吓 If you are menaced by someone, they threaten to harm you.
She's being menaced by her sister's latest boyfriend. 她正受到姐姐最近一个男友的恐吓。
PHRASE 以威胁(或恐吓)的手段(索要钱财) If someone commits the crime of demanding money with menaces, they threaten to cause harm unless they are given the money.
He denies demanding money with menaces. 他否认有过勒索钱财的行为。
She's being menaced by her sister's latest boyfriend. 她正受到姐姐最近一个男友的恐吓。
Two strangers menaced him with pistols and forced him to give up his money. 两个陌生人用手枪威胁他并强迫他拿出所有的钱。
Maston courageously menaced them with his steel hook. 梅斯顿勇敢地用他那可怕的铁钩子威胁它们。
The insurgents'whole attention had been directed, therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. 因而这些起义的人把全部注意力都集中在大街垒方面,这儿显然是时时受到威胁、也必然是要再次争夺的地方。
On Friday evenings, as the sun sets, she feels menaced by drunk drivers. 在太阳落山后的周五晚上,她担心喝醉酒的司机横冲直撞。
But the Pope is surely right to observe that it is the poor that are most at risk from the devastating effects of climate change, whether the African farmer whose crops are destroyed by desertification or the inhabitant of Asia whose livelihood is menaced by rising seas. 但教皇有一点无疑是正确的,他指出穷人是最容易遭受气候变化毁灭性影响的群体&无论是作物被沙漠化毁坏的非洲农民,还是生计受到海平面上升威胁的亚洲居民。
Forecasts are far from satisfactory for other high-income countries. But the eurozone is the most dangerous part of the world economy: only there do we see important governments – Italy and Spain – menaced by a loss of creditworthiness. 有关其他高收入国家的预测远远谈不上令人满意,但欧元区是全球经济中最危险的部分:只有在这个地区,我们看到一些重要国家(意大利和西班牙)的政府面临丧失公信力的威胁。
Our country is menaced by war. 我们的国家受到战争威胁。
This country is being menaced by war. 这个国家正受到战争的威胁。
Terrorists used the photos of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad-which showed prisoners stacked in naked heaps and menaced by dogs-as a recruiting tool. 恐怖分子使用虐囚的照片和恐吓囚犯的警犬作为招募工具。
Several of the emerging markets menaced by inflation are already rejecting this approach. 几个面临通胀威胁的新兴市场国家已开始排斥这种做法。
International Association for the Defence of Menaced Languages and Cultures 国际保护受到威胁的语言和文化协会
The minority nationalities, and especially the people of Inner Mongolia who are directly menaced by Japanese imperialism, are now rising up in struggle. 少数民族,特别是内蒙民族,在日本帝国主义的直接威胁之下,正在起来斗争。
Of the convicts, the dangers which menaced Granite House, the ruins with which the plateau was covered, the colonists thought no longer. 现在移民们不再考虑罪犯们给“花岗石宫”所带来的危害和高地所遭到的破坏了。
We were menaced by drunks. 我们受到醉汉们的恐吓。
With the advance of the21st century, human culture is being menaced along two dimensions: one comes from the threaten on the diversity culture. 21世纪的到来,给人类文化带来了两方面的胁迫:一方面是多元文化发展所受到的胁迫。
My daughter Ling-li, who is8, has lately been menaced by ghosts. 我女儿玲丽(音译)今年8岁,最近一直受到鬼的惊吓。
One danger menaced his future. 有一重危险威胁到了他的前途。
Once again Europe was menaced by the threat of all-out war. 欧洲又一次面临全面战争的威胁。
With that I shut the window and returned to my place by the fire; having too small a stock of hypocrisy at my command to pretend any anxiety for the danger that menaced him. 说完,我就关上窗户,回到炉边我的位置上;能供我使用的虚伪可太少了,没法为那威胁着他的危险装出焦急的样子。
A new and formidable danger menaced the western frontier 一个新的可怕的危险威胁着西部边界
It was not merely a question of losing central africa: for the first time in the whole war, the territory of Oceania itself was menaced. 这不仅是丧失中非问题,而且在整个战争中,大洋国本土第一次受到了威胁。
It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defense. 唯有当我们的权利受到侵犯或受到严重威胁时,我们才对受到的损害忿懑不平,或准备自卫。
I'd wrench them off her fingers, if they ever menaced me,'he answered brutally, when the door had closed after her. “如果这些一旦威胁到我头上,我就要把它们从手指头上拔掉,”当她跑掉后门关上时,他野蛮地回答。
Scuba divers off the Californian city of San Diego are being menaced by large numbers of jumbo squid. 在加州城市圣地亚哥附近的潜水有可能会被一大群大鱿鱼包围。
He menaced the bank manager with a stick. 他用木棍威胁银行的经理。
The burglar menaced Ken with a knife in an effort to escape being caught. 小偷以刀子威吓肯,以免被抓。
Study on the Growing Biomass and Matter Partitioning of Plantago virginica Menaced under Aluminum 铝胁迫对入侵植物北美车前生长特性和生物量分配的影响
Human's radical natural rights are being menaced by gene privacy; 基因隐私威胁人类最基本的自然权利;
The increasing environment and resource problems have menaced the surviving of human being and the development of society. 日益严重的环境和资源问题已经威胁到人类的生存和社会的发展。