imperil
英 [ɪmˈperəl]
美 [ɪmˈperəl]
v. 使陷于危险; 危及
过去分词：imperilled 现在分词：imperilling 第三人称单数：imperils 过去式：imperiled
BNC.23601 / COCA.17494
同义词辨析
endangerimperilthreaten【导航词义：危及】
endangerv. 危及，危害
〔辨析〕
指使人或事物遭受危险、破坏等。
〔例证〕
Smoking endangers your health.
吸烟有害健康。
A war would endanger millions of lives.
战争会危及无数人的生命。
吸烟有害健康。
A war would endanger millions of lives.
战争会危及无数人的生命。
imperilv. 〈正式〉使陷于危险中，危及
〔辨析〕
可与 endanger 换用，但更强调未来的危险。
〔例证〕
The security of the nation was imperiled/endangered.
该国的安全受到威胁。
The flood imperiled/endangered the villagers' lives.
洪水危及到村民的生命。
该国的安全受到威胁。
The flood imperiled/endangered the villagers' lives.
洪水危及到村民的生命。
threatenv. 危及，威胁到
〔辨析〕
指对人或事物构成威胁。
〔例证〕
Pollution is threatening marine life.
污染正危及海洋生物。
This scandal threatens to ruin his chances in the election.
这桩丑闻威胁到他的竞选前途。
污染正危及海洋生物。
This scandal threatens to ruin his chances in the election.
这桩丑闻威胁到他的竞选前途。
牛津词典
verb
- 使陷于危险；危及
to put sth/sb in danger
柯林斯词典
- VERB 使陷于危险;危及
Something thatimperilsyou puts you in danger.- You imperilled the lives of other road users by your driving.
你的驾驶危及了其他路人的生命安全。
- You imperilled the lives of other road users by your driving.
in AM, use 美国英语用 imperiling, imperiled
英英释义
verb
- pose a threat to
- The pollution is endangering the crops
双语例句
- Moreover, filming activities shall not imperil the ecological environment and landscape of nature reserve, and the impact of activity plan to environment should be given sufficient consideration;
而且影视拍摄活动不得破坏自然保护区的生态环境和景观，活动方案应充分考虑对环境的影响； - Accounting experts warned that, if implemented, the EU recommendations could imperil the prolonged efforts to narrow differences between accounting standards across the world.
会计专家们警告说，如果欧盟这些建议得到落实，缩小全球会计准则差异的长期努力可能会受到危害。 - You imperilled the lives of other road users by your driving.
你的驾驶危及了其他路人的生命安全。 - Concerns are now being voiced that a faltering of the Chinese economy will imperil the global recovery.
外国经济学家开始担心中国经济增长乏力将危及全球复苏。 - All this, it is feared, will dent the profits of big oil and mining firms, stoke inflation and imperil the West's access to resources that it needs just as much as China does.
这一切会动摇大石油和采矿公司的利润，他们担心这样会继续助燃通货膨胀并且危及拥有同样资源需求的西方国家获取资源。 - It is an iron-clad rule of the contemporary business landscape: invest in China or imperil your future growth.
当代生意场上有一条铁律：去中国投资，否则就会危及未来的发展。 - The survival frequency is still low, it seriously imperil the health and the livings of the People.
胃癌的生存率很低，严重危害人的生活和健康。 - Pawnbrokers do not make credit checks, and using them does not imperil credit ratings.
典当行不需要信用调查，也不会损害当户的信用记录。 - In his annual letter to Berkshire shareholders, Mr Buffett recounted how frozen credit markets dovetailed with tumbling home and stock prices to imperil many banks and produce "a paralysing fear that engulfed the country".
在他写给伯克希尔股东的年度信件中，巴菲特详述了陷入冻结的信贷市场如何与暴跌的房价、股价结合在一起，危及众多银行，引发“一种席卷全国的令人瘫痪的恐惧”。 - Eliminating ill weeds But one should as little imperil oneself by an evil companion as pay honor to another at the cost of one's own credit.
消灭危害性大的杂草一个糟糕的伙伴给我们带来的危害，不见得就比牺牲自己的荣誉而给他人增光的危害更大。