threaten是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 恐吓， 威胁； 有…危险， 快要来临，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is but one dan-ger which can threaten us.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time his grasp of things in general soon showed Totski that he now had to deal with a being who was outside the pale of the ordinary rules of traditional behaviour, and who would not only threaten mischief but would undoubtedly carry it out, and stop for no one.
-- She was like a madwoman all that day; now she would cry; now she would threaten me with a knife; now she would abuse me.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You forget this, and threaten to rob me of the prize for which I have toiled, and which the sons of the Achaeans have given me.
-- 'Idomeneus,' said he, 'lawgiver to the Cretans, what has now become of the threats with which the sons of the Achaeans used to threaten the Trojans?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But place yourself here, and when Death comes I expect him every moment do not let him pluck the flower up, but threaten him that you will do the same with the others.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was already night, cold and cheerless, the heavens being overcast with clouds which seemed to threaten snow.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the world would not she have seemed to threaten me. Imagine the shock; imagine how, till I had actually detected my own blunder, I raved at the blunders of the post. What was to be done? One thing only. I must speak to my uncle.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am surrounded by moun-tains of ice which admit of no escape and threaten every moment to crush my vessel.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At their edges rose the virgin forests, dark and cool even in the hottest noons, mysterious, a littlesinister, the soughing pines seeming to wait with an age-old patience, to threaten with soft sighs: "Be careful!Becareful!We had you once.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why,' said the cock, 'I was just now saying that we should have fine weather for our washing-day, and yet my mistress and the cook don't thank me for my pains, but threaten to cut off my head tomorrow, and make broth of me for the guests that are coming on Sunday!'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have only got more than your share of the money, and make people work for you for two pounds a week, or threaten them with starvation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, 'Let them rest!Let them rest!'
-- He was an ugly priest by torchlight; of a lowering aspect, with an overhanging brow; and as his eyes met those of Mr Dorrit, looking bareheaded out of the carriage, his lips, moving as they chaunted, seemed to threaten that important traveller; likewise the action of his hand, which was in fact his manner of returning the traveller's salutation, seemed to come in aid of that menace.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for buttons, she soon learned to wonder where they went, to shake her head over the carelessness of men, and to threaten to make him sew them on himself, and see if his work would stand impa-tient and clumsy fingers any better than hers.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First: In order to facilitate the fastening to it of an additional line from a neighboring boat, in case the stricken whale should sound so deep as to threaten to carry off the entire line originally attached to the harpoon.
-- And yet still further pondering while I jerked him now and then from between the whale and ship, which would threaten to jam him still further pondering, I say, I saw that this situation of mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes; only, in most cases, he, one way or other, has this Siamese connexion with a plurality of other mortals.
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：
-- At length, the blanket was slowly raised, and the scout stood in the aperture with a countenance whose firmness evidently began to give way before a mys-tery that seemed to threaten some danger, against which all his cunning and experience might prove of no avail.
-- Immediately conscious how unavailing any struggle against such an overwhelming force must prove, he submit-ted to his fate, encouraging his gentle companions by a few low and tender assurances, that the natives seldom failed to threaten more than they performed.
-- 'It is possible that the Indians and stragglers of the en-emy may intrude, in which case you will remind them of the terms of the capitulation, and threaten to report their conduct to Montcalm.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these reflections I worked my mind up, not only to a resignation to the will of God in the present disposition of my circumstances, but even to a sincere thankfulness for my condition; and that I, who was yet a living man, ought not to complain, seeing I had not the due punishment of my sins; that I enjoyed so many mercies which I had no reason to have expected in that place; that I ought never more to re-pine at my condition, but to rejoice, and to give daily thanks for that daily bread, which nothing but a crowd of wonders could have brought; that I ought to consider I had been fed even by a miracle, even as great as that of feeding Elijah by ravens, nay, by a long series of miracles; and that I could hardly have named a place in the uninhabitable part of the world where I could have been cast more to my advantage; a place where, as I had no society, which was my affliction on one hand, so I found no ravenous beasts, no furious wolves or tigers, to threaten my life; no venomous creatures, or poisons, which I might feed on to my hurt; no savages to murder and devour me.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I lay you ain't a-goin' to threaten nobody any more, Jim Turner.
-- Another one says, 'I wisht old Boggs 'd threaten me, 'cuz then I'd know I warn't gwyne to die for a thousan' year.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next thing you threaten to commit suicide about, I shan't do, even at some personal inconvenience.'
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