A new epidemic called SARS is threatening us right now.

一种叫做 SARS 的新流行病正威胁着我们。

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Tax men were always coming and threatening us.

收负责收税的人经常来，还威胁我们。

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We received a letter threatening us. They slipped it under the door.

我们收到一封恐吓信，他们把信从门缝下塞进来。

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Yes, we're more attracted to people who are competent than people who we think are incompetent but people who are super competent, people who seem competent on all dimensions, they're kind of threatening to us.

是的，我们更喜欢有能力的人,而非没能力的人,但是那些能力超群的人，那种全能型的人，又我们感到恐慌。

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Typically, the more decisively the former is resourced relative to the latter, the more likely it is that hostile parties will be dissuaded from threatening us or our interests.

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The cleaver was a reference to Mr Panetta's term for spending cuts threatening the US defence budget.

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By increasing the number of US dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the US government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.

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