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Something menacing makes you expect something unpleasant — a threat hanging in the air, even if nothing bad has happened yet. A dog’s low sound can be menacing. A quiet smile can be menacing if it does not match the eyes. Weather, film music, a message with no name: all can feel menacing. It comes from the verb menace, “to threaten.” Though actually, it is a bit stronger and more about atmosphere than scary. Scary can be a sudden jump in a film; menacing is the feeling that harm is on its way. You can use it of people, looks, sounds, and even of a silence.
帶威脅的；險惡的
組成Built from menace + -ing, used here as an adjective: “giving you the feeling of a menace.”
同家族的字
- menacethe verb/noun this adjective is built from
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
menacingadj/ˈmɛnɪsɪŋ/
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Synonym of threatening in its various senses.
- menacing look
- menacing smile
menacingnoun/ˈmɛnɪsɪŋ/
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The act of making menaces or threats.
- 1824-1826, William Cobbett, History of the Protestant Reformation They remember his subornings, menacings, bribings, cuttings, maimings, hangings, and burnings.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。