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

• 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！
• Let's shake down on the floor with a blanket or two.
  让我们弄一、两条毯子在地板上打个临时铺睡吧。
• The Nazi bandits decided to shake down the inmates to make sure nothing had been smuggled into the concentration camp.
  纳粹匪徒决定对集中营里的人进行搜查以确保没有什么东西偷运进去。
• 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。
• 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。
• You will soon shake down at the new post.
  你很快就会适应新的工作岗位的。
• 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。
• Somebody wanted to shake Mulwray down.
  有人想把默瑞整下台。
• Don't shake down the decorations on the Christmas tree.
  别摇落圣诞树上的装饰品。
• 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