出言恐嚇
最具體的一支：把那股壓迫化成明講出來的警告。
verbal threat · noun · B2
A warning that you will hurt someone or cause trouble unless they do what you want.
恐嚇的話
核心畫面
Picture harm hanging over you and pressing closer — maybe words someone aims at you, maybe some bad thing that might happen. At its core, threat is that sense of something harmful bearing down on you.
可以想成有一股傷害懸在你頭上、正朝你逼近——可能是別人放的狠話，也可能是某種說不準但很糟的可能性。threat 的核…更多收起
可以想成有一股傷害懸在你頭上、正朝你逼近——可能是別人放的狠話，也可能是某種說不準但很糟的可能性。threat 的核心畫面比較像這種『壞事壓過來』的壓迫感。Two branches
逼近的危害
把那股壓迫抽象化：不必有人開口，危險本身懸在那裡就是威脅，甚至可以指向帶來危險的源頭。
danger, risk · noun · B2
The chance that something very bad or harmful might happen.
威脅、隱憂
原始詞典資料7 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。
Threatname
- 1
A surname.
threatnoun詞源 1/θɹɛt/
- 1
An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
- There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.
- At the height of the crisis, according to a retired SAC wing commander, SAC airborne alert bombers deliberately flew past their turnaround points toward Soviet airspace, an unambiguous threat which Soviet radar operators would certainly have recognized and reported. "I knew what my target was," the SAC general adds: "Leningrad." The bombers only turned around when the Soviet freighters carrying missiles to Cuba stopped dead in the Atlantic.
- 2
An indication of potential or imminent danger.
- Verifying and addressing actual threats is not paranoia.
- Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
- 3
A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
- Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.
- Japan applauds NATO’s identification of China as a threat in the Strategic Concept. The document notes that China poses “systemic challenges” and declared the “deepening strategic partnership” between Moscow and Beijing as one of its main priorities. Significantly, it explained that developments in distant theaters can “directly affect” trans-Atlantic security.
threatverb詞源 2/θɹɛt/
- 1
To press; urge; compel.
- 2
archaicTo threaten.
- An hideous Geant horrible and hye, / That with his talnesse seemd to threat the skye […]
- What? threat you me with telling of the King? I will auoucht’t in preſence of the King: I dare aduenture to be ſent to th’Towre.
- 3
To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.
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。