shakedown

参见：shake down 和 shake-down

英语

其他形式

shake-down

词源

shake down 的动词派生词。以前曾有将稻草摇下来做简易临时床铺的方法。

发音

（澳洲）音频： (档案)

名词

shakedown (复数 shakedowns)

(俚语) 敲诈勒索
What is this, a shakedown?
干啥呢，勒索吗？
- 2021年8月25日, Tassanee Vejpongsa, “Four Thai Police Charged in Drug Suspect’s Death After Video Surfaces”, 出自 Bloomberg‎^[1], Bloomberg, retrieved 2021-08-25:
  Four Thai police officers charged with murder in connection with the deadly shakedown of a suspected drug dealer in custody were arrested Wednesday after a video clip of the incident shared on social media caused a public furor.
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(俚语) 搜索；搜身
(尤指船舶或航空器等的) 试验期，试用期
简易临时床铺
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia，第 79 页:
  All sorts of gossip floated about; one story told was that a selector, and not the youngest of that staid and sober party, was found putting his boots into his shakedown at night, and lying outside the entrance of his tent, giving careful directions to some one to call him in time for the morning mail.
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- 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage:
  "There's nowhere for me to lie down, sir," he answered, and there was in his voice a humbleness which was very distressing. -- "Don't you know anyone in the house who'll give you a shakedown?" -- "No, sir."
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- 1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, 出版于 2018，第 107 页:
  ‘You two,’ he says, ‘you're not going back tonight. […] I can make you shake-downs on the veranda and we'll have a bite to eat.’
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形容词

shakedown

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异序词

hawknosed