Unemployment has remained sluggishly high in part because both small and large companies have been reluctant to take on additional employees in an uncertain and threatening environment.

失业人口仍旧居高不下，部分原因就是因为公司无论大小，都不情愿在一个不稳定、充满威胁的环境中额外增加雇员。

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He prefers large glasses, or bottles, which he USES as symbolic weapons, firmly grasped, and gesticulating in a threatening, "in the face" kind of way.

他们喜欢大酒杯或者喝瓶装酒，也是他们象征意义上的武器，抓得很牢，表达一种当面威胁的姿势。

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The deformation of fault creep is potential threatening to the safety of nuclear power plant, dam of reservoir, lifeline systems of a city, large and high buildings.

断层蠕滑变形对核电站、水库大坝、城市生命线工程、大型和高层建筑的安全是一种潜在威胁。

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As a result, transmission constraints in the United States and the European Union are threatening to table large-scale wind and solar energy projects under development.

FORBES: Transmission Bottlenecks Bad News for Renewable Energy

Compounding this imbalance is the fact that continuing urbanization and property development have taken large amounts of farmland out of production, threatening grain supply and agricultural development.

FORBES: Chopsticks

Most of the large banks are foreign, and their owners are publicly threatening to walk away from Argentina.

ECONOMIST: Argentina's crisis