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endanger

/en-deyn-jeyr/US // ɛnˈdeɪn dʒeɪr //UK // (ɪnˈdeɪndʒə) //

危及,濒危,危害,濒临

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to expose to danger; imperil: It was foolish to endanger your life in that way.

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Examples

  • All three species are endangered, and the restored wetland provides habitat that may help boost their populations.

  • Another option is “managed wildfire,” which means monitoring fires but allowing them to burn when they don’t directly endanger people or property.

  • They live throughout much of the northeastern US and are not threatened or endangered, but they are mighty hard to find.

  • We have Santa Cruz cypress trees, they’re federally endangered trees that only grow right here.

  • These animals are so rare, wildlife ecologists struggle even now to determine how vulnerable or endangered they are.

  • But political parties officials continue to reassure the country that the campaigns will not endanger anyone.

  • He said he feared that including his name in an article would endanger his life.

  • But the Sketchbook Project confines itself to restricting only submissions that might endanger the staff.

  • He added, “It would be profoundly destabilizing; and far from promoting peace, it would endanger it.”

  • The Iraq War helped Obama win the presidency, but now the problems we left behind endanger his legacy.

  • It would endanger me to distribute such a fiery appeal, my friend remonstrated.

  • The fall of the Irish church would endanger the connection between the two countries.

  • Man, you will say, decides every moment on actions which he knows will endanger him; man kills himself sometimes, then he is free.

  • This may even be the case to such an extent as to endanger their lives, yet they are not able to control themselves.

  • The debates on this matter injured the reputation of the ministry though they did not endanger its stability.