shakedown是什么意思音标:英 ['ʃeɪkdaʊn]美 [ˈʃekˌdaʊn]

n. 便床, 整顿, 调整
a. 试航的

n. initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
n. a very thorough search of a person or a place
n. extortion of money (as by blackmail)

shakedown的用法和例句：

1.This is a shakedown, and we both know it.

这是勒索 你我心知肚明

2.This is a shakedown, pure and simple.

这是一次敲诈 简单明了

3.A shakedown is when your case has no merit.

案子毫无利处可图时才叫勒索

4.I don't think this was a straightup shakedown.

我觉得并不是勒索那么简单

5.shakedowns, scrutiny, it's all a part of it.

整顿 审查 什么都有

6.You wouldn't need a shakedown to get some.

不需要靠勒索就有人愿意跟你干

7.A shakedown that could happen to any of us.

可能发生在我们任何人身上的勒索

8.Harvey, you told me to prove this wasn't a shakedown.

哈维 是你让我证明这不是勒索

9.I think we just had a seasonal shakedown.

我们好像被节日版花式拐骗了

10.No more shakedowns, no more tanning booth shenanigans.

不许捣毁任何东西 不许再来美黑沙龙那套