Nearly a quarter of plant species are threatened with extinction.

近四分之一的植物物种有灭绝的危险。

youdao

They don't worry about their future, even though they're legally a threatened species and their little estuary is literally in the shadow of the massive 500-ft. stacks of a power plant.

尽管在人类法律上它们已被视为濒危物种，并且那小小的海湾旁有一个发电站，其高耸的500英尺长的巨大烟囱，使该海湾处在阴影中，但它们对未来还是毫不担忧。

youdao

"Both plant species and the watershed are threatened by deforestation," Espaldon warns.

“植物种类和分水岭都受到森林砍伐的威胁，”Espaldon警告说。

youdao

Russians were awoken to the threat posed by the destruction of a hydroelectric plant last year, when a major accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam in Siberia threatened the lives of millions of people downstream.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Last week, workers at the closure-threatened WCF plant asked customers to boycott Asda stores.

BBC: Butcher at work

Three parties are interested in bidding for a closure-threatened meat processing plant, the finance secretary has said.

BBC: Hall's of Broxburn factory may have rescue bids

When construction costs at the Shoreham nuclear plant threatened to drive Lilco into bankruptcy, for example, Catacosinos could have pulled the plug on the hugely unpopular project.

FORBES: Leveraging the regulators