menace: [13] Latin mināx meant ‘threatening’ (it was formed from a base *min- ‘jut’ which also produced English eminent and prominent, and hence etymologically denoted ‘overhanging’). From it was derived the noun minācia ‘threatening things’, which passed into English via Old French manace. The closely related demeanour comes ultimately from a word denoting ‘drive animals with threats’. => eminent, prominent
menace (n.)
c. 1300, "declaration of hostile intent," also "act of threatening," from Old French menace "menace, threat" (9c.), from Vulgar Latin minacia "threat, menace" (also source of Spanish amenaza, Italian minaccia), singular of Latin minaci? "threatening things," from minax (genitive minacis) "threatening," from minari "threaten, jut, project," from min? "threats, projecting points," from PIE root *men- (2) "to project." Applied to persons from 1936.
menace (v.)
c. 1300, from Old French menacer "threaten, urge" (11c.), Anglo-French manasser, from Vulgar Latin *minaciare "to threaten," from minacia (see menace (n.)). Related: Menaced; menacing.
雙語例句
1. The European states retained a latent capability to menace Britain's own security.
歐洲國家仍具有威脅英國自身安全的潛在能力。
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2. There is a pervading sense of menace.
有一種危機四伏的感覺。
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3. You're a menace to my privacy, Kenworthy.
肯沃西，你這人真討厭，居然侵犯我的隱私。
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4. Excessive drinking is a social menace.
過度飲酒是一種社會公害。
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5. a new initiative aimed at beating the menace of illegal drugs