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1. The crooks shook down the shopkeepers for extortion money.
流氓向店主们索取保护费。
2. The police shook down the apartment for clues to the murder.
警察彻底搜查公寓,寻找谋杀案的线索。
1. 摇落:shake a loose leg 过放荡的生活 | shake down 摇落 | shake hands with 与......握手
2. 振动硬化:shaft journal 轴颈 | shake down 振动硬化 | shake off effect 振动效应
3. 交船航训:裂纹(木材),振动 shake | 交船航训 shake down | 剪[力]流 shear flow
4. 新船的试验航行:shag mat 绳毛垫 | shake down 新船的试验航行 | shake down cruise 试航
1. 威胁;勒索;搜身
If someone shakes you down, they use threats or search you physically in order to obtain something from you.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。