Picture someone standing too close with a hard look on their face — nothing has happened yet, but you can feel that something bad is coming. The word always points at that moment just before, when the harm is promised rather than done.
可以想成：有個人站得太近、臉色很硬——什麼事都還沒發生，但你已經感覺到接下來不會好。這個字指的永遠是「事情發生之前」的那一刻：傷害還沒來，但已經先被預告了。天空烏雲密布時的那種壓迫感，用的正是同一個畫面。
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
threateningadj詞源 1/ˈθɹɛtə.nɪŋ/
- 1
Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm.
- Never turn your back to someone who is displaying threatening behavior.
- Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.
- 2
Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm.
threateningnoun詞源 2/ˈθɹɛtə.nɪŋ/
- 1
An act of threatening; a threat.
- And nowe lorde beholde their threatenyngꝭ / and graunte vnto thy ſervauntꝭ wyth all confydence to ſpeake thy worde.
- In Mr. J. C. Hotten’s Life, and in Mr. A. W. Ward’s admirable monograph in the “English Men of Letters” Series, a paper of mine called “Pincher Astray” is attributed to Dickens.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。