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

• 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
• 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！
• You will soon shake down at the new post.
  你很快就会适应新的工作岗位的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The police had to shake down every building in the street before they found the gunman.
  在找到持枪歹徒之前，警察得彻底搜查街上的每幢房子。
• 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。
• 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。