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

• Shake down the duplicating and overlapping administrative organs.
  精简重复和重叠的行政机构。
• 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？
• He's new in the office but he'll soon shake down.
  他虽然刚来这个办公室，但很快就会适应的。
• 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。
• 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？
• He finally managed to shake down the troublesome motor and get on his way.
  他终于设法修好了老出毛病的发动机，然后上路了。
• 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。
• Next week the captain will shake down his new ship on a voyage to the Mediterranean Sea.
  下周船长要将他的新船开到地中海去试航。
• 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。