threat: [OE] Threat originally meant ‘trouble, oppression’; ‘expression of an intention to do harm’ is a secondary sense, which arose out of the notion of ‘putting pressure’ on someone. It came from a prehistoric base *thraut-, *threut-, *thrut-, which probably went back to Indo- European *trud- ‘push, press’ (source also of Latin trūdere ‘thrust’, from which English gets abstruse, intrude, etc, and probably also of English thrust). => abstruse, intrude
threat (n.)
Old English þreat "crowd, troop," also "oppression, coercion, menace," related to þreotan "to trouble, weary," from Proto-Germanic *thrautam (cognates: Dutch verdrieten, German verdrießen "to vex"), from PIE *treud- "to push, press squeeze" (cognates: Latin trudere "to press, thrust," Old Church Slavonic trudu "oppression," Middle Irish trott "quarrel, conflict," Middle Welsh cythrud "torture, torment, afflict"). Sense of "conditional declaration of hostile intention" was in Old English.
雙語例句
1. In an embarrassing climb-down, the Home Secretary lifted the deportation threat.
內務大臣尷尬地作出讓步，解除了將其驅逐出境的威脅。
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2. I think your concern is misplaced. Ackroyd is no threat to anyone.
我認為你多慮了，阿克羅伊德不會對任何人構成威脅。
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3. A third of Africa is under threat of desertification.
非洲有三分之一的土地麵臨荒漠化的威脅。
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4. The threat of inflation is already evident in bond prices.
通貨膨脹的危險在證券價格上已經表現得很明顯。
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5. Rebel sources have so far reacted cautiously to the threat.