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danger

/deyn-jer/US // ˈdeɪn dʒər //UK // (ˈdeɪndʒə) //

危险,危害,危险性,危險

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril.
    • : an instance or cause of peril; menace.
    • : Obsolete. power; jurisdiction; domain.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounhazard, troublesome situation
Forms: dangers

Examples

  • Unfortunately, this change alone can only mitigate the danger of misleading health information, but does little to actually stop it.

  • Geologists are also warning of the danger of destructive debris flows.

  • Halloween is still a long way off, but as summer ends, some Outside editors are getting in the spirit early with a new HBO horror series, an unsettling novel about the dangers of technology, and a book all about death rituals.

  • “We need another scale or some totally different way of warning of a danger,” says Masters.

  • Without privacy, we run the danger that someone will build The Ring and destroy society by ruling us all.

  • Kickstarter is one start-up platform that seems to have realized the danger.

  • What had been the greatest asset of the paperback revolution,” observes Rabinowitz, “became its greatest danger.

  • He remained as hopeful as ever that he would himself join the NYPD, whatever the danger.

  • They work in a world filled with a sense—real or imagined—of danger lurking around each corner and every hallway.

  • The actions of North Korea this week should also send a clear message about the danger of this regime.

  • But the greatest danger I ever underwent in that kingdom was from a monkey, who belonged to one of the clerks of the kitchen.

  • In particular the Governor of Adinskoy offered us a guard of fifty men to the next station, if we apprehended any danger.

  • Worst danger zone, the open sea, now traversed, but on land not yet out of the wood.

  • We got off our horses and stooped over the man, forgetting for the moment that danger might lurk in the surrounding thicket.

  • They soon retired, however, as the Fort was in danger of being attacked from another side.