shake down

英 [ʃeɪk daʊn]

美 [ʃeɪk daʊn]

威胁; 勒索; 搜身

法律

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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• Why would you hire people to shake him down?
  你为什么还派人去恐吓他？
• Somebody wanted to shake Mulwray down.
  有人想把默瑞整下台。
• I knew his address and, yeah, I wanted to shake him down.
  我有他地址，只是想上门催债。
• Shake down the mercury after you have read and recorded the temperature.
  你看完温度并记录后，将水银甩下来。
• Most of them will shake down as honest fellows.
  他们大多诚实，与人和睦相处。
• 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。
• The shake& down analysis of the beam under axial force/ bending moment combined deformation
  梁在轴力/弯矩组合变形下的安定性分析
• Two young men tried to shake him down for$ 300000.
  有两个年轻人曾企图向他敲诈30万美元。
• You will soon shake down at the new post.
  你很快就会适应新的工作岗位的。
• How did all these separate forms shake down to the3000 use today and to the dozen or so, like English and Chinese, that are understood by large portions of the world's people?
  这些各种各样互不相关的语言为何缩减到今天仍在使用的三千种以及被世界上很多人共同理解的如英语和中文等十来种语言呢？