Motives! gnashed Diabolus. And he tore his last card into a thousand shreds and cast the shreds under his feet in his rage and exasperation. Motives! New motives! Truly Thou art the threatened Seed of the woman! Truly Thou art the threatened Son of God!--Let all our preachers, then, preach much on motive to their people. The commonplace crowd of their people will not all like that preaching any more than Diabolus did; but their best people will all afterwards rise up in their salvation and bless them for it.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
"He swore if you ever came back and married me he'd follow us all over the world to tell it."
Belding saw Gale grow deathly white and suddenly stand stock-still. "Chase threatened you, then?" asked Dick; and the forced naturalness of his voice struck Belding. "Threatened me? He made my life a nightmare," replied Nell, in a rush of speech. "At first I wondered how he was worrying mother sick. But she wouldn't tell me. Then when she went away he began to hint things. I hated him all the more.英文原著 · 《Desert Gold》
de Perrot's face took a delicate shade of red, and he nodded; he could not speak. He seemed for an instant in danger of some kind of fit. Then he found his voice again. "The fool prated of love! Of love!" he said with such a look--like that of a dying fowl--that I could have laughed aloud. "And when I bade him remember his duty he threatened me. He, that unnatural boy, threatened to betray me, to ruin me, to go to Madame de Beaufort and tell her all--all, you understand. And I doing so much, and making such sacrifices for him!"英文原著 · 《From the Memoirs of a Minister of France》
May not a man do what he likes with his own?"
The argument seemed to strike home. There is always a lurking sense of rude justice in a mob--at least a British mob. "Don't you see how foolish you were?--You tried threats, too. Now you all know Mr. Fletcher; you are his men--some of you. He is not a man to be threatened."
This seemed to be taken rather angrily; but John went on speaking, as if he did not observe the fact. "Nor am I one to be threatened, neither. Look here--the first one of you who attempted to break into Mr.英文原著 · 《John Halifax》
I did not know until yesterday that your commissary had also shown the things to the priests from San Jose--Father Jose Uria and Father Pedro de la Cueva. They and the priests of San Francisco have argued with the Governor not once but three times. how his poor excellency swore yesterday. He threatened to return at once to Monterey. I flew into a great rage and threatened in turn to follow with all the other girls and all the priests--vowed he should not have one moment of peace until that cargo was ours."英文原著 · 《Rezanov》
- Just wait a second-- - You breached my threshold and threatened me, threatened my wife, the mother of my children.美剧 · 《Billions》
- Did he mention anyone threatening him? - Threatening him?美剧 · 《Lie to me》
- I don't want you to feel threatened... - You thlnk I'm threatened by him?美剧 · 《Sex and the city》
Because you're threatened by her success. I'm threatened by betty?美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》