In industry, a worker who is grossly insubordinate is threatened with discharge.

在企业界，拒不服从指令的工人面临被解雇的威胁。

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Studies show that we invariably take more gambles when threatened with a loss than when offered a reward.

研究表明，当我们受到损失的威胁时，我们总是比得到奖励时更愿意冒险。

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Your home colleagues—your family—have no clear rewards for their labor; they need to be talked into it, or if they're teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices.

你家里的同事——你的家人——他们的劳动也没有明确的回报；他们需要被人说服，如果他们是青少年，要用没收全部电子设备来威胁他们。

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Working with researchers throughout the world, Borlaug began to offer his methods in areas where people were threatened with starvation.

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The romance heroine is often threatened with rape, but by her cleverness or by good luck or a concatenation of forces ; she can always invariably avert that tragedy; and by the end of the work she can present herself to her future husband as a virgin.

这位传奇的女英雄总是被强奸所威胁，但是多亏了她的机敏，或是走好运，或是一连串的军队暴力,她总是能避免悲剧;,在作品的最终,她呈现在未来丈夫面前的仍是一个处女。

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He left England with many of the royal families, the aristocratic families, who were threatened by the republican armies organized by Cromwell and that had executed the King.

他和许多皇室家庭一起离开了英国，那些贵族家庭，被克伦威尔领导的共和军队所威慑,正是克伦威尔处决了国王。

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The Appendix lists species which may become threatened with extinction unless trade is closely controlled.

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As for his parents, they have been threatened with prosecution for "harboring" their own son.

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When we talked to him, he was being threatened with the shutdown of his printing press.

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