Throughout most of the eighteen fifties, war was a continual threat between the North and the South over the issue of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

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

Censorship only comes into play once a text has actually been in circulation for a while, only after a number of readers have found a published text to pose a threat.

控制仅仅是一本书已经出版发行一段时间,一些读者已经发现这印刷的文本,造成威胁时才起作用的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Malaria is also a threat to people living in parts of Asia, Central and South America, the Middle East, and southeastern Europe.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

If the Israelites were, in fact, basically Canaanites, who had withdrawn from the larger collective, who insisted on the overlordship of Yahweh, then Canaanites who did not join them in this were a special threat to the new Yahwism.

如果以色列人实际上是迦南人，他们从大团体中撤离，他们坚持耶和华的霸主般的唯一地位，那么没有加入他们的迦南人,对于新的耶和华崇拜便是一种威胁。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He knew they would continue to be a threat to the movement of Union troops and supplies.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Peter was the first child of his father's second wife and thus a potential threat to the ambition of the relatives of the first wife.

彼得是他父亲与其第二任妻子的长子,因此对第一任妻子的亲戚们而言,彼得是他们的一个潜在威胁

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Another American study says obesity has become as great a threat to quality of life as smoking.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

I think to remove the possibility of becoming a even wilder threat.

想要这个威胁变小。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

In eighteen fifty, the United States faced the threat of a split between northern and southern states.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

Whether and to what extent the Russian formalists and their allies, the Futurists--among them Mayakovsky and others felt a kind of antagonism or growing threat from the government is not wholly clear to me.

俄国的形式主义者和他们的同盟，未来主义者，比如玛雅可夫斯基,或多或少的感觉到了来自政府的敌意,这一点我并不十分清楚。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Southern states withdrew from the Union because they saw a threat to their way of life.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The finding is that if your race or your group has a negative stereotype associated with it in any particular domain, being reminded of it serves as a stereotype threat and hence damages your performance in all sorts of domains.

他们发现如果你的种族或群体,跟一个消极的刻板印象有关,随便在什么领域上，如果别人在你面前提前，就足以构成刻板印象威胁,从而影响你在这个领域上的表现。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It is a threat to financial stability of the euro area and the European Union."

VOA: special.2010.05.14

It becomes an arm-twisting thing -because of this risk of moral hazard, the bank has a threat to take the money back and they are going to find out quickly if you, as a company, are behaving wrong.

这衍变成一种施压行为...,由于道德风险的存在,银行恐怕收不回欠款,因此,在你的公司行为不良时,他们便会迅速发现此事

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu both spoke of the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

So Saint Peter concludes with -- it goes on, and he concludes with a couplet that is as terrifying in its threat of finality as it is for me utterly baffling in its significance.

因此圣彼得以一句如同这首诗结尾的威胁般,可怕的对句作了总结,我很难读出这句话的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It attacked young, old or sick animals that were not much of a threat.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

In the controversies that are leading up to the Licensing Act, one of the authors most frequently mentioned as posing a special threat to the well-being of the English nation is our very own Milton.

这些论战导致了《权利法》的出台，最常提到的对英国的繁荣富强有着特殊威胁的,作者之一就是弥尔顿。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He also described the nuclear goal of Iran as a serious international threat.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

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

Other pieces suggested unease and a feeling of threat.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

And,they live in a constant threat of eviction from whatever roofs they had, even if it is a squatter camp,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Some Democrats hope she will win, saying that Angle poses less of a threat to Harry Reid in November.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

Ghana coach Rajevac describes Forlan as a fine player and his team will need to beware of Uruguay's attacking threat.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Even as officials had tried to downplay the future al-Qaida threat, some had warned of a possible increase in Sunni-led violence.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

Later,Clinton told an audience of Moscow State University students that attacks on journalists and human-rights defenders are a threat to progress.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

In Washington Monday, the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency declared greenhouse gasses a "threat to public health and the welfare of the American people."

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"As a result,an alarming percentage of the Pakistani population now sees America as a greater threat than al-Qaida,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

So,yes,there is a threat particularly of the use of radioactive material, although we have no specific evidence indicating any capability at this time."

VOA: standard.2009.05.01