- 1危及、使陷入危險
To endanger someone or something is to put them in danger — to make it more likely they will be hurt, damaged, or destroyed. You can endanger a person, an animal, a building, a plan, or even someone’s good name. It is a verb, and it is a little more formal than “put in danger,” which means the same thing. You will meet it in news, science class, and warnings. Though actually, it does not always mean the harm has already happened; it means the risk is real now. When an animal is already very close to disappearing, English often switches to the adjective endangered rather than this verb. People also stretch it: “You’re endangering the project” can mean you are putting the project’s success at risk, not that anyone will be physically hurt.
From the word’s history
From en- + danger.
en-（使）加 danger（危險），即使陷入危險。
組成en- (“put into, make”) + danger.
同家族的字
- dangerthe harm you put someone into
- dangerousthe adjective for something that can cause harm
- endangeredalready put in danger; often used of animals close to dying out
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
endangerverb/ɛnˈdeɪnd͡ʒɚ/
- 1
To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
- I hold him but a fool that will endanger / His body [in a duel] for a girl that loves him not
- All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him.
- 2
obsoleteTo incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.
- He that turneth the humours back […] endangereth malign ulcers.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。