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

• 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。
• We were menaced by drunks.
  我们受到醉汉们的恐吓。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；