They're not a threat, they're threatened. And you also can reach out to them in your own way.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

He wants his novel to be like that living butterfly, but the threat is always that it will be more like the aquamarine. And I want to suggest to you that the aquamarine has an even darker personal significance to him.

他希望他的小说就像蝴蝶那样鲜活，然而它却总是,倾向于像海蓝宝石，我希望你们注意到,海蓝宝石对于他个人而言还有更加阴暗的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

But before you can resist a threat, you need to understand it.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Identify the antibody and you identify the threat.

VOA: special.2010.11.16

You enter it against your freedom of choice, and you cannot get out of it without punishment or the threat of punishment."

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

"A common threat is if you leave we're going to report you to immigration and you'll be arrested, you'll be kept in prison for a long time."

VOA: standard.2010.05.24

"I would still have thought it right to remove him,". "I mean obviously you would have had to use, deploy different arguments about the nature of the threat."

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

"If you look at the content of Lech Kaczynski's policies, it was basically this sense of threat to Poland coming both from external sources, from Russia,from Germany, from the European Union."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17