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

• 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。
• 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。
• The contents of the packet may shake down in traveling.
  旅行过程中，包里的东西可能会晃落下来。
• Shake down the duplicating and overlapping administrative organs.
  精简重复和重叠的行政机构。
• 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。
• I knew his address and, yeah, I wanted to shake him down.
  我有他地址，只是想上门催债。
• Somebody wanted to shake Mulwray down.
  有人想把默瑞整下台。
• 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
• Most of them will shake down as honest fellows.
  他们大多诚实，与人和睦相处。
• A President is in a sense lucky if he is faced with a crisis early on; it enables him to shake down his team.
  在某种意义上说，一个总统能早点遇到危机是件幸运的事，因为这使他可以调整好他的班子。