menaced

英 [ˈmenəst]

美 [ˈmenəst]

v.  对…构成危险; 危及; 威胁到
menace的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：menaced　过去式：menaced　

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 威胁;危险人物;祸害
  If you say that someone or something is amenaceto other people or things, you mean that person or thing is likely to cause serious harm.
  1. In my view you are a menace to the public.
     在我看来，你对公众是个祸害。
  2. ...the menace of fascism...
     法西斯主义的威胁
  3. 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 amenacewhen you want to say that they cause you trouble or annoyance.
  1. 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。
  2. 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
  Menaceis a quality or atmosphere that gives you the feeling that you are in danger or that someone wants to harm you.
  1. There is a pervading sense of menace.
     有一种危机四伏的感觉。
  2. ...a voice full of menace.
     充满威胁的声音
• VERB 危及;威胁
  If you say that one thingmenacesanother, you mean that the first thing is likely to cause the second thing serious harm.
  1. 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 youare menacedby someone, they threaten to harm you.
  1. 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 moneywith menaces, they threaten to cause harm unless they are given the money.
  1. He denies demanding money with menaces.
     他否认有过勒索钱财的行为。

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This country is being menaced by war.
  这个国家正受到战争的威胁。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。