Blackmail
['blækmeɪl] or ['blækmel]
解释:
(noun.) extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information.
(verb.) obtain through threats.
(verb.) exert pressure on someone through threats.
阿伦编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.
(n.) Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
(n.) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.
(v. t.) To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
巴里整理
解释:
n. rent or tribute formerly paid to robbers for protection: hush-money extorted under threat of exposure or denunciation esp. of a baseless charge.—v.t. to extort money from a person by this expedient.
编辑:珀西
例句:
- There's blackmail in it, or I am much mistaken. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- To begin with, barter, blackmail, tribute, and robbery by violence passed into each other by insensible degrees. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- If ever he blackmailed an innocent person, then indeed we should have him, but he is as cunning as the Evil One. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- He is known to have held papers which he used for blackmailing purposes. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- If this young person should produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is she to prove their authenticity? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
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