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More Americans are opting to work well into retirement, a growing trend that threatens to upend the old workforce model.

越来越多的美国人选择在退休后继续工作很长时间，这一日益增长的趋势可能会颠覆旧的劳动力模式。

Finally, because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.

最后，由于自动化有可能扩大资本收入与劳动收入之间的差距，税收和社会保障体系将不得不重新考虑。

These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.

这些新形式起初主要由学者创作、由业余演员表演，但在英国，正如在西欧其他各地一样，职业演员阶层的壮大正使戏剧趋于大众化，无论它是新是旧，是古典的还是中世纪的，是文学性的还是闹剧性的。

The crash was a major reason the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) decided to formally list the bird as threatened.

数量的骤减是美国鱼类及野生动物管理局（USFWS）决定正式将这种鸟列为受威胁物种的一个主要原因。

But Ashe and others argued that the “threatened” tag gave the federal government flexibility to try out new, potentially less confrontational conservation approaches.

但阿什等人认为，“受威胁”的标签使联邦政府能够灵活地尝试新的、可能不那么具有对抗性的保护方法。

The major reason for listing the lesser prairie chicken as threatened is ____

将小草原鸡列为受威胁物种的主要原因是____

threatened

被威胁

However, critics say the big companies use such deals to buy their most threatening potential competitors before their businesses have a chance to gain momentum, in some cases as part of a “buy and kill” tactic to simply close them down.

然而，批评者表示，大公司利用此类交易，在最具威胁的潜在竞争对手的业务有机会发展壮大之前就将其买下，有时这是“收购并扼杀”策略的一部分，直接将其关闭。

Discussing the issue in private will make the powerful person feel less threatened.

私下讨论这个问题会让有权势的人觉得没那么受威胁。

Even as we humans count on forests to soak up a good share of the carbon dioxide we produce, we are threatening their ability to do so.

就在我们人类依靠森林吸收我们所产生的大量二氧化碳的同时，我们也在威胁着森林的这种能力。

Who will be most threatened by automation?

谁会受到自动化最大的威胁？

Your home colleagues — your family — have no clear rewards for their labor; they need to be talked into it, or if they’re teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices.

你在家里的“同事”——你的家人——付出劳动却没有明确的回报；你得说服他们去做，如果他们是青少年，还得威胁要没收他们所有的电子设备。