existential threat

基本解釋

All agree that climate change is an existential threat to humankind.
眼下，這場關(guān)鍵性的會議正一天天向我們走來。眾所周知，氣候變化對人類的生存構(gòu)成了威脅。
Members of the Pakistani security establishment remain convinced that India poses an existential threat to Pakistan.
巴基斯坦安全部門的成員仍然相信，印度是巴基斯坦現(xiàn)在的威脅。
Even now, few Pakistanis may consider the Taliban to be the existential threat to their country America says it is. But all Pakistanis can appreciate the merits of having better government.
即使在現(xiàn)在，也沒幾個巴基斯坦人認(rèn)為塔利班對自己的國家構(gòu)成了實(shí)際性威脅（當(dāng)然美國可不是這樣認(rèn)為的），但所有的巴基斯坦人都向往一個更好的政府。

"This threat from violent extremism, not just in Afghanistan, not just in Pakistan, but globally,is a real existential threat to freedom-loving countries.

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