shake down

释义

1. 摇下来

   transitive

   shake down apples from an apple tree

   把苹果从苹果树上摇下来

2. 让...的钱从兜里抖出来

   transitive

3. 打劫，勒索

   broadly · slang · transitive

   He left after shaking her down for four bits for carrying the bags.

   1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 16:

   At 58.9K, he'd be handing over practically nine thousand dollars a year to California and to the county for the privilege of being shaken down by these thicknecks.

   1996, Michael Drinkard, Disobedience, page 64:

4. 到处寻找，地毯式搜索

   slang · transitive

5. 试航 （参见shakedown）