initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
a very thorough search of a person or a place
extortion of money (as by blackmail)
形容词 shakedown:
intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system
例句
用作动词 (v.)
Police shook the club down, looking for narcotics. 警方为搜索毒品把那个俱乐部彻底搜查了一遍。
People get pissed off when you shake them down. 当你彻底搜查时，人们会很生气。
The gangsters shook the store owner down every month. 这些恶棍每个月都向店主勒索钱财。
And blackmailers extort money with threats of digital destruction or of virtual blockades that shut down a company's Web or e-mail servers. 有些歹徒寄黑函威胁破坏数位建设，或以封锁方式瘫痪企业的网站或电子邮件伺服器，藉此进行勒索。
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