今天分享新概念英語班詞匯是threat。下面我們來了解一下這詞具體用法。
A prominent Russian opposition politician has published adetailed report arguing that the leader of Chechnya RamzanKadyrov has become a national security threat and should be removed. Ilya Yashin said Mr. Kadyrov who was appointed byPresident Putin has created his own Islamic State that mayone day turn on Russia. “The main task of my report is to draw the attention of Russian societyto what's happening and to demand the immediate resignation of Ramzan Kadyrov as Chechenleader. Vladimir Putin has placed a time bomb in the North Caucasus that could explode andturn into a third Chechen war.” The Chechen leader has dismissed the report.
來看文章中出現的小詞threat，與national security搭配在一起構成了national security threat-國家安全威脅詞組，常用于許多與恐怖襲擊有關的新聞里，threat的動詞threaten在我們新二里出現過，來看一下課文原句重現，
Winter was coming on and the hills threatened the surrounding villages with destruction,for heavy rain would not only wash away the soil but would cause serious floods as well
文章中的threaten作動詞來用解釋為威脅的意思，常用結構為threaten A with B，用B來威脅A。
如：He tied her up and threatened her with a six-inch knife.
此外它還可以表示預示的含義，可以是預示（危害）也可以是預示事情的發生。常用結構為threaten to do
如：The clouds threaten rain.云預示有雨.
The fighting is threatening to turn into full-scale war...這場戰斗有可能會演變為全面的戰爭。
看過對threaten的分析之后，是不是對threaten的了解又更深一層了呢，你所不知道的新概念我們下次再見。
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