[N-COUNT 可数名词]门槛;门口 The threshold of a building or room is the floor in the doorway, or the doorway itself.
[usu sing]
He stopped at the threshold of the bedroom...
他在卧室门口停住了。
The bride was carried over the threshold.
新娘被抱进了家门。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](某事发生或改变的)界限,阈,起始点 A threshold is an amount, level, or limit on a scale. When the threshold is reached, something else happens or changes.
[usu with supp]
She has a low threshold of boredom and needs the constant stimulation of physical activity...
她容易厌倦,需要时常进行活动来刺激一下。
The consensus has clearly shifted in favour of raising the nuclear threshold...
显然大家已普遍开始转向支持提高核武器使用的门槛了。
Fewer than forty per cent voted — the threshold for results to be valid.
投票的人不到 40%——投票结果无效。
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[PHRASE 短语]在…开端;将要经历;面临着 If you are on the threshold of something exciting or new, you are about to experience it.
[PHR n/-ing]
We are on the threshold of a new era in astronomy.
我们很快就将迎来天文学的新纪元。
...a lovely girl on the threshold of growing up.
眼看就要长大成人的可爱女孩
Oxford
thresh·old/ˈθreʃhəʊld; NAmEˈθreʃhoʊld/noun1the floor or ground at the bottom of a doorway,considered as the entrance to a building or room 门槛;门口◆She stood hesitating on the threshold.她站在门口,犹豫不决。◆He stepped across the threshold.他迈过门槛。2the level at which sth starts to happen or have an effect 阈;界;起始点◆He has a low boredom threshold(= he gets bored easily).他极易感到乏味。◆I have a high pain threshold(= I can suffer a lot of pain before I start to react).我的忍痛力很高。◆My earnings are just above the tax threshold(= more than the amount at which you start paying tax).我的收入刚刚超过征税起点。3[usually singular ]the point just before a new situation, period of life, etc. begins 开端;起点;入门◆She felt as though she was on the threshold ofa new life. 她觉得好像就要开始新生活了。thresholdthresholdsthresh·old/ˈθreʃhəʊld; NAmEˈθreʃhoʊld/
1the entrance to a room or building, or the area of floor or ground at the entrance: She opened the door and stepped across the threshold.2the level at which something starts to happen or have an effect: Eighty percent of the vote was the threshold for approval of the plan.a high/low pain/boredom etc threshold (=the ability or inability to suffer a lot of pain or boredom before you react to it)3at the beginning of a new and important event or developmentSYN brinkbe on the threshold of something The creature is on the threshold of extinction.COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2ADJECTIVES/NOUN + thresholdsomebody’s pain threshold (=your ability or inability to deal with pain)· ‘Will it hurt?’ ‘That all depends on your pain threshold.’somebody’s boredom threshold (=whether you do or do not get bored easily)· She loves challenges and admits she has a low boredom threshold.a tax threshold· The Conservatives promised to help the lower paid by increasing the tax threshold.a high threshold· Professional football players have a pretty high pain threshold.a low threshold· I know that young children have very low boredom threshold.verbsexceed a threshold· The value of many family homes far exceeds the inheritance tax threshold.lower a threshold· the demand to lower the retirement threshold to 60raise a threshold· They should raise the threshold to at least £245 a week.cross the threshold· Such a person has sufficiently crossed the threshold of criminality to justify punishment.
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