Infectious animal tuberculosis, for example, has established itself as a threat to lions in southern Africa.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

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

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

But Professor Gaechter says his team's theory was that punishment has only low costs because it needs to be used rarely and works as a threat.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

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

In recent years,however, asbestos has become feared as a threat to human health.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

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

The North would see the move as a threat to Washington.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

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

But,the situation can be even more complicated for those who work for non-governmental organizations that the government sees as a threat.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

When the West saw the Soviet Union as a threat.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

The end of his first one reads like poetry as he appeals for unity in a country under threat of civil war.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

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

VOA: special.2010.01.13

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

VOA: special.2009.04.11

And,as a result, southern states carried out their earlier threat.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

He recognized it as a new threat.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

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

"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

As many as 200 million cane toads in Australia pose a threat to native wildlife.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

Election officials are scrambling to organize the new ballot as the fierce Afghan winter approaches and the country faces a growing threat from the Taliban.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

"They recognize as we do, that this is a shared responsibility and a shared threat."

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

During World War II, it was home to an internment camp for aliens, as well as American citizens the government considered a threat to the nation's security.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Biden said the defense system comes as Europe faces a serious threat.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

As long as the U.S. nuclear threat persists, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will increase and update nuclear weapons as a deterrent as needed in the future.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

He also said the attack on a police training academy in Lahore on Monday is further evidence that extremists groups are a threat to Pakistan as well as to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

In particularly blunt criticism, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek of the Czech Republic, which currently holds the EU presidency, blasted the Obama administration's stimulus plan as "a way to hell" and a threat to world financial markets.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

"We are there to protect the streets of Britain, we are there because al-Qaida poses a threat to us as well as it does to other countries and we are there because if al-Qaida took control again or had an influence in Afghanistan, under a Taliban government, then the people of this government would not be safe,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.14