blackmail

英 ['blækmeɪl] 美 ['blækmeɪl]

• n. 勒索；敲诈
• vt. 勒索；讹诈

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 敲诈，勒索，讹诈

   obtain money or advantage by threatening to make known unpleasant facts about a person or group

n. (名词)

1. [U]敲诈，勒索，讹诈

   the act of blackmailing or being blackmailed

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 勒索
2. 敲诈
3. 敲诈勒索所得的钱财
4. 付给盗匪的保护费
5. 讹诈
6. 保护费
7. 免抢税
8. 胁迫
9. 威胁
10. 恐吓
11. 原义
12. 被勒索的钱财
13. 逼取

v. 动词

1. 勒索
2. 敲诈
3. 胁迫
4. 要挟
5. 逼取
6. 讹诈

英英释义

Noun:

1. extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information

Verb:

1. exert pressure on someone through threats

2. obtain through threats

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. She was sent to prison for blackmail.
   因犯敲诈勒索罪她被送进监牢。
2. It's a clear case of blackmail!
   这显然是敲诈！
3. He can be ruthless in getting what he wants, but I believe he would stop short of blackmail.
   他这个人为达到目的是心黑手辣的,但我认为他还不至于使用敲诈手段。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. Someone was trying to blackmail him with pictures of him and his mistress.
   有人想用他和情人的照片来敲诈勒索他。
2. He tried to use the scandal to blackmail me.
   他想利用这种丑闻敲诈我。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+ ～+n./pron.

1. Don't think you can blackmail me.
   不要以为你能要挟我。
2. She blackmailed him for years by threatening to tell the newspapers about their affair.
   她以公开他们的私情要挟他很多年。

S+ ～+n./pron. +into n./v -ing

1. I don't believe the policy of power politics can blackmail us into submission.
   我们不信实力政策能够讹诈我们屈服。
2. They tried to blackmail me into giving them the money.
   他们试图诈我钱财。
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3. The President said he wouldn't be blackmailed into agreeing to the terrorists' demands.
   总统说他不会因受恐怖分子的威胁而答应他们的要求。

用作名词 (n.)

1. The foreign minister declared in a statement to the press that he would never submit to blackmail.
   外长向新闻界发表的声明中宣称他绝不屈服于讹诈。

词汇搭配

• atomic blackmail 原子讹诈
• levy blackmail upon 敲诈钱财
• nuclear blackmail 核讹诈

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. blackmail的基本意思是“敲诈，勒索”“要挟，胁迫”，多指以威胁向他人讲出某人的秘密为手段而敲诈某人的钱财或胁迫其做某事。
2. blackmail是及物动词，以被敲诈勒索的人为宾语，其后有时可接介词短语“into n./v -ing”表示“胁迫某人做某事”。
3. 表示“以…要挟”用介词by。

近反义词

【近义词】

• extortion 强取
• intimidation 恐吓
• bribery 受贿
• corruption 贪污
• extraction 抽出
• protection 保护
• coercion 强迫
• threat 威胁
• extort 勒索
• extract 摘录
• exact 精密严谨的
• bribe 贿赂
• force 武力
• coerce 强制
• threaten 威胁
• compel 强迫
• exaction 勒索
• pressure 压强
• blackjack 包有皮革的软金属棒...

派生词

n.(名词)

• blackmailer n. 敲诈者