shake down
英 [ʃeɪk daʊn]
美 [ʃeɪk daʊn]
威胁; 勒索; 搜身
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 威胁;勒索;搜身
If someoneshakesyoudown, they use threats or search you physically in order to obtain something from you.- He ordered the dismantling of police checkpoints on highways, which were being used to shake down motorists for bribes...
他下令取消公路上的警方检查站,因为警察们在这些地方向司机强行索要贿赂。 - Residents complain about being harassed on the street, roughed up, sometimes even shaken down for their money.
居民们抱怨在街上遭到骚扰和攻击,有时甚至被抢钱的人搜身。
- He ordered the dismantling of police checkpoints on highways, which were being used to shake down motorists for bribes...
双语例句
- Coconut small monkeys wanted you to help it shake down!
小猴子想吃椰果,你来帮它摇下来吧! - He's new in the office but he'll soon shake down.
他虽然刚来这个办公室,但很快就会适应的。 - Shake down the duplicating and overlapping administrative organs.
精简重复和重叠的行政机构。 - Most of them will shake down as honest fellows.
他们大多诚实,与人和睦相处。 - Shake down peasants by pretending to arrest them
以逮捕为要挟向农民敲诈勒索 - We have to shake down on this pile of sacks for the night.
我们今晚只好睡在这堆袋子上了。 - Whilst we were traveling overseas some customs officials tried to shake us down for money.
当我们在外国旅游的时候,一些海关官员曾想通过一些方法来算计我们的钱。 - Next week the captain will shake down his new ship on a voyage to the Mediterranean Sea.
下周船长要将他的新船开到地中海去试航。 - Man, he's trying to shake us down.
兄弟,他想摆脱我们。 - Corrupt police nowadays often work hand in glove with organised crime gangs, targeting vulnerable businessmen with investigations and arrests as a way to shake them down for money or take over their assets.
腐败的警察如今常常与有组织犯罪团伙勾结,调查并逮捕处于弱势地位的商人,向其勒索钱财或抢走他们的资产。