blackmail
英 ['blækmeɪl]
美['blækmel]
- n. 勒索，敲诈；勒索所得之款
- vt. 勒索，敲诈
词态变化
第三人称单数: blackmails;过去式: blackmailed;过去分词: blackmailed;现在分词: blackmailing;
中文词源
blackmail 勒索
black, 黑，此处指邪恶。mail, 此处指租金，贡金。来自16世纪苏格兰一些土匪向当地农民强制收租，类似保护费。
英英释意
- 1. extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
英文词源
- blackmail
- blackmail: see mail
- blackmail (n.)
- 1550s, from black (adj.) + Middle English male "rent, tribute," from Old English mal "lawsuit, terms, bargaining, agreement," from Old Norse mal "speech, agreement;" related to Old English mæðel "meeting, council," mæl "speech," Gothic maþl "meeting place," from Proto-Germanic *mathla-, from PIE *mod- "to meet, assemble" (see meet (v.)). From the practice of freebooting clan chieftains who ran protection rackets against Scottish farmers. Black from the evil of the practice. Expanded c. 1826 to any type of extortion money. Compare silver mail "rent paid in money" (1590s); buttock-mail (Scottish, 1530s) "fine imposed for fornication."
- blackmail (v.)
- 1852, from blackmail (n.). Related: Blackmailed; blackmailing.
实用场景例句
- emotional/moral blackmail
- 情感上 / 道德上胁迫
牛津词典
- She blackmailed him for years by threatening to tell the newspapers about their affair.
- 她以向报纸公开他们的恋情要挟了他很多年。
牛津词典
- 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。
牛津词典
- It looks like the pictures were being used for blackmail...
- 这些照片好像被用于敲诈勒索。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Opponents accused him of blackmail and extortion.
- 对方指控他敲诈勒索。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The tactics employed can range from overt bullying to subtle emotional blackmail.
- 从公然威吓到微妙的情感胁迫，各种战术都用上了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He told her their affair would have to stop, because Jack Smith was blackmailing him...
- 他告诉她说他们的婚外情必须结束了，因为杰克·史密斯正在敲诈他。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The government insisted that it would not be blackmailed by violence...
- 政府坚持说它不会接受暴力讹诈。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The journalist used blackmail to make the lawyer give him the documents.
- 记者讹诈那名律师交给他文件.
《简明英汉词典》
- Hijack ing is a form of blackmail.
- 劫持是敲诈的一种形式.
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- Some reports suggest Lan may have been trying to blackmail the mine owner.
- 一些报导说,兰成长可能曾试图勒索矿主.
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- Mac: No, actually it's called blackmail. Entrapment is what cops do to thieves.
- 迈克: 不, 实际上叫作勒索. 诱捕是警察对付贼的手段.
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- He tried to use the scandal to blackmail me.
- 他想利用这种丑闻敲诈我.
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- Linda was involved in a blackmail scandal of the mayor.
- 林达涉嫌敲诈市长的丑闻.
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- Don't think you can blackmail me into doing that.
- 别以为你能讹诈我,迫使我做那件事.
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- He tried to use the sexual scandal to blackmail the mayor.
- 他想利用性丑闻来敲诈市长.
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- Blackmail is a species of crime which we all hate.
- 恫吓勒索是我们大家憎恨的一种罪行.
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- Good blackmail? What's that?
- 善良的敲诈恐吓? 那是什么?
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- They broke him by blackmail.
- 他们以勒索使他屈服.
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- This issue is also rift with blackmail possibilities.
- 该问题也存在敲诈的可能性.
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- Speech Acts in " Blackmail "
- 《勒索 》 文中的言语行为(英文)
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- Crying is blackmail. Use it if you must, but don't expect us to like it.
- 哭泣是一种勒索行为, 只能在必要的时候使用, 但是不要以为我们会喜欢.
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- She demanded ＄ 1000 blackmail from him.
- 她向他敲诈了1000美元.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The foreign minister declared in a statement to the press that he would never submit to blackmail.
- 外交部长向新闻界发表的声明中宣称他决不屈服于讹诈.
《简明英汉词典》
- Mr. Smith keeps paying blackmail to a man who has something on him.
- 史密斯先生一直被敲诈勒索,因为他有短处在这个人手里.
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- Blackmail is something that should never be given in to.
- 永远不要向敲诈屈服.
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- We will not give in to blackmail!
- 我们不会向勒索让步!
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- Money, bribery, blackmail, exemption from punishment for crimes committed are their main recruitment methods.
- 金钱 、 贿赂 、 勒索 、 免罪是他们主要的招兵买马的方法.
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- A real friend could blackmail you with it.
- 一个真正的朋友可以威胁你说出来.
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