threat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 恐吓， 威胁； 坏兆头， 危险迹象，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Agamemnon did not forget the threat that he had made Achilles, and called his trusty messengers and squires Talthybius and Eurybates.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Say the words,' said the Ape-man, repeating, and the fig-ures in the doorway echoed this, with a threat in the tone of their voices.
-- His continued life was I knew a threat against mine.
-- Then put-ting my whip in my teeth, I stooped for a stone, and with that threat drove the creature away.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be difficult to describe the expression with which Magua listened to this threat to follow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This threat caused one of the young ladies, she being of a weak and trembling temperament, to shed tears, and for this offense they were both filed off immediately, with a dreadful promptitude that struck terror into the souls of all the pupils.
-- She was much startled, on returning home one night, to find that Mrs Jarley had commanded an announcement to be prepared, to the effect that the stupendous collection would only remain in its present quarters one day longer; in fulfilment of which threat (for all announcements connected with public amusements are well known to be irrevocable and most exact), the stupendous collection shut up next day.
-- The boy could only point to the window, and reply with a stifled giggle, expressive of such intense enjoyment, that Quilp clutched him by the throat and might have carried his threat into execution, or at least have made very good progress towards that end, but for the boy's nimbly extricating himself from his grasp, and fortifying himself behind the nearest post, at which, after some fruitless attempts to catch him by the hair of the head, his master was obliged to come to a parley.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through all this sneering talk, I was made to feel the threat of death that overhung me, and my cheeks burned and my heart beat painfully in my breast.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll dance over your grave, I will that's the bitterest threat of your night-women, that beat head-winds round corners.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unembellished by any violence of gesticulation, this might have seemed no very high compliment to the lady's charms; but, as Mr. Bumble accompanied the threat with many warlike gestures, she was much touched with this proof of his devotion, and protested, with great admiration, that he was indeed a dove.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was stirred by this thought, angered by that--her own injustice, Hurstwood's, Drouet's, their respective qualities of kindness and favour, the threat of the world outside, in which she had failed once before, the impossibility of this state inside, where the chambers were no longer justly hers, the effect of the argument upon her nerves, all combined to make her a mass of jangling fibres--an anchorless, storm-beaten little craft which could do absolutely nothing but drift.
-- While he was not sure how much significance might be attached to the threat she had made, he was sure that her attitude, if long continued, would cause him no end of trouble.
-- Then he would take up his wife's threat again, and the wrinkles and moisture would return.
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