menace
英 ['men?s]
美['m?n?s]
- n. 威脅；恐嚇
- vi. 恐嚇；進(jìn)行威脅
- vt. 威脅；恐嚇
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1. 諧音“滅你死”----黑幫老大對(duì)小混混說(shuō)“你要是不乖乖聽話的話，就滅你死，滅死你，滅你全家”----威脅，恐嚇。
中文詞源
menace 威脅
來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)minari,突出，升出，來(lái)自PIE*men,突出，升出，詞源同mountain,minatory.引申詞義威脅。
英文詞源
- menace
- menace: [13] Latin mināx meant ‘threatening’ (it was formed from a base *min- ‘jut’ which also produced English eminent and prominent, and hence etymologically denoted ‘overhanging’). From it was derived the noun minācia ‘threatening things’, which passed into English via Old French manace. The closely related demeanour comes ultimately from a word denoting ‘drive animals with threats’.
=> eminent, prominent - menace (n.)
- c. 1300, "declaration of hostile intent," also "act of threatening," from Old French menace "menace, threat" (9c.), from Vulgar Latin minacia "threat, menace" (also source of Spanish amenaza, Italian minaccia), singular of Latin minaci? "threatening things," from minax (genitive minacis) "threatening," from minari "threaten, jut, project," from min? "threats, projecting points," from PIE root *men- (2) "to project." Applied to persons from 1936.
- menace (v.)
- c. 1300, from Old French menacer "threaten, urge" (11c.), Anglo-French manasser, from Vulgar Latin *minaciare "to threaten," from minacia (see menace (n.)). Related: Menaced; menacing.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. The European states retained a latent capability to menace Britain's own security.
- 歐洲國(guó)家仍具有威脅英國(guó)自身安全的潛在能力。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. There is a pervading sense of menace.
- 有一種危機(jī)四伏的感覺。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. You're a menace to my privacy, Kenworthy.
- 肯沃西，你這人真討厭，居然侵犯我的隱私。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. Excessive drinking is a social menace.
- 過度飲酒是一種社會(huì)公害。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. a new initiative aimed at beating the menace of illegal drugs
- 旨在打擊非法毒品威脅的新舉措
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》