一、详细释义:
n.
危险;冒险
例句:
The United States should strengthen Pakistan which found itself in dire peril.
美国应当加强处于严重危险中的巴基斯坦。
例句:
Let me face the peril!
让我来面对危险!
v.
危及;置…于险境 [T]
例句:
He periled his life to save her honour.
他以他的生命为孤注以保全她的名节。
二、词义辨析:
danger,risk,hazard,menace,peril,threat
这些名词均含有“危险、威胁”之意。danger含义广,普通用词,指能够造成伤害、损害或不利的任何情况。risk指有可能发生的危险,尤指主动进行某种活动或去碰运气而冒的危险。hazard比risk正式,多指偶然发生的或无法控制的危险,常含较严重或有一定风险的意味。menace所指的危险性最严重,表示使用暴力或造成破坏性的可能。peril指迫在眉睫很有可能发生的严重危险。threat普通用词,语气弱于menace,指任何公开侵犯对方的言行,给对方构成危险或威胁。
三、相关短语:
yellow peril
黄祸(西方诬指所谓来自亚洲的危胁尤指来自中国的危胁)
四、参考例句:
Resist at your peril!
若有抵抗,咎由自取!
Let me face the peril!
让我来面对危险!
Icy roads are a peril to motorists.
结冰的道路对驾驶者十分危险。
Icebergs are a peril to ships.
冰山对船只来说是个危险物。
The refugees were in peril of death from hunger.
难民有饿死的危险。
Many species are in peril of extinction nowadays.
现在许多物种正面临灭绝的危险。
The ship was in imminent peril of being wrecked.
这艘船有立即被毁坏的危险。
The refugees were in peril of death from hunger.
难民有饿死的危险。
All is not lost that's in peril.
〔谚〕危险不等于完蛋。
But at the moment of maximum peril the upper sky was unguarded.
然而在最最危急关头,高空中却一无戒备。