'Off, dog!' cried Hindley, threatening him with an iron weight used for weighing potatoes and hay.

“滚，狗！”欣德利叫道，并用称土豆和干草的铁秤砣威胁他。

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The insight is an intuitive one—threatening someone to convince him not to attack you is much more likely to work than threatening him in order to make him give up something he cares about.

这是一种非常直观的感受—与其威逼某人让他放弃他所在乎的东西，还不如威慑他让他不要攻击你，这似乎会是更有效的方法。

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Surrounded by three men, who were threatening him, Jim struck out in all directions and soon had them all lying on the ground.

在受三个人包围并威胁的情况下，吉姆凶猛地四面迎敌，很快就把他们打倒在地。

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Among other things,the U.S.military has been distributing leaflets in the area where Bergdahl was captured, urging residents to help find him, and threatening that if his captors do not release him unharmed they will be hunted down.

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Just weeks ago he was a novice opposition candidate for Parliament with little recognition outside the district, which had been held by his mother Varun Gandhi quickly rocketed into the national spotlight after his recent speeches aired on national television appearing to show him mocking and threatening Muslims.

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An Iraqi whistle-blower said insurgents had threatened to kill his predecessor and are now threatening him.

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"They said apparently I had made a phone call to Michael Philpott threatening him and his family, " she told the court.

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Mr James Taghdissian, prosecuting, told the court when Webber was eventually detained he was singing "doh, ray, me" to ward off aliens he perceived to be threatening him.

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