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

• 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。
• Through shake down testing and pilot-production, it is approved that it is practicable to do tractor holster welding with robot.
  通过调试试验及试生产证明利用弧焊机器人焊接拖拉机机架是可行的。
• Shake down the duplicating and overlapping administrative organs.
  精简重复和重叠的行政机构。
• Shake down peasants by pretending to arrest them
  以逮捕为要挟向农民敲诈勒索
• Why would you hire people to shake him down?
  你为什么还派人去恐吓他？
• 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。
• It isn't just the people at the top who are corrupt. I've seen cops shake people down on the street for money, cigarettes or booze.
  不仅仅是那些高层的人在腐败，我看到过警察在街上就跟人勒索钱丶香烟以及酒。
• You will soon shake down at the new post.
  你很快就会适应新的工作岗位的。
• 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！