menace

/men-is/US // ˈmɛn ɪs //UK // (ˈmɛnɪs) //

威胁,祸害,危害,恐吓

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n.名词 noun

1
- : something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- : a person whose actions, attitudes, or ideas are considered dangerous or harmful: When he gets behind the wheel of a car, he's a real menace.
- : an extremely annoying person.

v.有主动词 verb

1
men·aced, men·ac·ing.
- : to utter or direct a threat against; threaten.
- : to serve as a probable threat to; imperil: overdevelopment that menaces our suburbs.

v.无主动词 verb

noundanger; pest

Forms: menaced, menacing

Synonyms

The country seems obsessed with imposing, bluff-fronted SUVs and trucks these days, and the Highlander conforms to this trend, albeit with less implicit menace than others have achieved.
The energy swelled, ideas improved, and the menace returned.
Now the counterterrorism apparatus has to shift its aim to a new menace, one that is more opaque and diffuse than Islamist networks, experts said.
If they knock off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next weekend, it’ll be because Sean Payton understood his team had shifted away from a points machine under Brees to a defensive menace.
Wildfires in the West, hurricanes around the world, and an increasingly volatile climate were already a menace as the overheated Earth continued to run a fever.
Hitchcock leans toward me in a conspiratorial, almost lascivious, way and says, “Let's pile on the menace.”
The menace and abuse was constant; it reads as a household under siege.
But as of Sept. 10, our intelligence agencies knew of no specific menace to the homeland.
Unbridled nationalism is a menace; it leads to trade wars and, all too often, real wars.
“I am convinced that the only way to fight this menace is by attacking it on many fronts,” he said in a letter to Congress.
The menace of a thunder-cloud approached as in his childhood's dream; disaster lurked behind the quiet outer show.

/men-is/US // ˈmɛn ɪs //UK // (ˈmɛnɪs) //

威胁,祸害,危害,恐吓

n.名词 noun

1
- : something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- : a person whose actions, attitudes, or ideas are considered dangerous or harmful: When he gets behind the wheel of a car, he's a real menace.
- : an extremely annoying person.

v.有主动词 verb

1
men·aced, men·ac·ing.
- : to utter or direct a threat against; threaten.
- : to serve as a probable threat to; imperil: overdevelopment that menaces our suburbs.

v.无主动词 verb

noundanger; pest

Forms: menaced, menacing

Synonyms

The country seems obsessed with imposing, bluff-fronted SUVs and trucks these days, and the Highlander conforms to this trend, albeit with less implicit menace than others have achieved.
The energy swelled, ideas improved, and the menace returned.
Now the counterterrorism apparatus has to shift its aim to a new menace, one that is more opaque and diffuse than Islamist networks, experts said.
If they knock off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next weekend, it’ll be because Sean Payton understood his team had shifted away from a points machine under Brees to a defensive menace.
Wildfires in the West, hurricanes around the world, and an increasingly volatile climate were already a menace as the overheated Earth continued to run a fever.
Hitchcock leans toward me in a conspiratorial, almost lascivious, way and says, “Let's pile on the menace.”
The menace and abuse was constant; it reads as a household under siege.
But as of Sept. 10, our intelligence agencies knew of no specific menace to the homeland.
Unbridled nationalism is a menace; it leads to trade wars and, all too often, real wars.
“I am convinced that the only way to fight this menace is by attacking it on many fronts,” he said in a letter to Congress.
The menace of a thunder-cloud approached as in his childhood's dream; disaster lurked behind the quiet outer show.