The metropolis, well, it's a place of ambivalence, a place of promise and of threat, of exultation and also of dread.

都市是一个自相矛盾的地方，既有希望，又有威胁，喜悦与恐惧相伴而存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Anymore, then they will feel threatened by the fact that as a society we decided to ban that drug because of the deformities were caused.

不然，面对我们禁止使用镇静安眠药的决定,他们也会有威胁感,尽管禁止的原因是这种药物会导致胎儿畸形。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But Hal thinks to himself fairly plausibly, humans really screw things up.

但哈尔看似有凭有据地认为,人类只会威胁到任务的执行

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Obviously, it goes without saying that today the assessment of Milton as some kind of imminent social threat or some sort of social force in terms of the radical nature of political power - that has taken a sharp turn.

显然--这是不言而喻的--现在，这一种基于弥尔顿,政治力量的激进性而把他看做是,危险的社会威胁或社会力量的观点,已经有了180度大转弯。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He met the Attorney General, the Director of the Central Intelligence, the Director of the National Intelligence, eventually the Director of a Fusion Centre where all of the intelligence communities came together to talk about the threats.

总统还会会见司法部长，中央情报局局长，国家情报局局长，最后是一个集合中心的负责人,所有的情报组织都聚在那里,讨论有可能存在的威胁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Because the Mycenaean centers all reveal for that stretch of time that they're scared. The proof of it comes from strengthening their already quite strong walls in almost all the sites that we see, and also--this is a very important fact.

因为在迈锡尼文明的中心,有迹象表明在一段时期,他们受到了威胁,这样说的证据是,我们发现的几乎所有的遗迹,都在本就很坚固的城墙上继续加固,而且,这是一个很重要的史实

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If we defined food differently: that it's something that nurtures the body, something found in nature, something that doesn't harm the environment-- there are a number of criteria one can apply to define a food-- then we might come up with a different definition than this, but this is the way the nutrition field generally looks at it.

如果我们给出不同的定义,滋养身体的物质,在自然界找到的物质,不会威胁到身体的物质,有很多标准可以拿出来定义食物,我们也许可以就此重新进行定义,但这就是营养学看待食物的方式

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Then they may feel threatened.

那么他们可能会有一种威胁感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And political leaders have represented this to their people as so it were a humanitarian effort which it is But they have not made clear to the people that they are fighting a war, they are fighting a war because of threat to them as well.

政府人员说这是一个人道主义的策略,但是他们并没有说明他们在进行一场战争，因为阿富汗对他们有威胁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选