| 单词 | threatening |
| 释义 | threatening (θretənɪŋ ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] You can describe someone's behaviour as threatening when you think that they are trying to harm you. The police could have charged them with threatening behaviour. She said Denny had received a threatening letter and asked me if I sent it. Synonyms: menacing, bullying, intimidatory, terrorizing threateningly adverb [usually ADVERB with verb] 'This ain't no affair of yours, boy!' McClosky said threateningly. 2. See also life-threatening, threaten Collocations: threatening cloud It's a powerful thing, palpable in the room, like a sudden mass of threatening clouds. Times, Sunday Times As the threatening clouds approached, the winds suddenly blew up into a blinding snowstorm. Times, Sunday Times You'd have thought that the threatening clouds would impart a certain urgency to proceedings, but not a bit of it. Times, Sunday Times But as the ambulances screeched past beneath the threatening clouds, there was an exhilarating sense that today, at least, life was winning out over death. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 胁迫的 Japanese: 脅すような |
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