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

• Once you have recorded the reading, shake the thermometer down to below 36 degrees
  一旦完成计数，把温度计标数甩到36度以下。
• Why would you hire people to shake him down?
  你为什么还派人去恐吓他？
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• Man, he's trying to shake us down.
  兄弟，他想摆脱我们。
• 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。
• Don't shake down the decorations on the Christmas tree.
  别摇落圣诞树上的装饰品。
• 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？