extort
extort 英 [ɪkˈstɔ:t] 美 [ɪkˈstɔrt]
vt. 敲诈；侵占；强求；牵强地引出
进行时:extorting 过去式:extorted 过去分词:extorted 第三人称单数:extorts
- To extort is to use information or the threat of violence to acquire cash or something else. Extortion is a classic shakedown, a gouge, a squeeze.
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- vt. 敲诈；侵占；强求；牵强地引出
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1. But I don't see how North Korea can use it to extort anything.
但是我不相信朝鲜可以用它来敲诈任何东西。
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2. You shouldn’t go after a journalist just because they bought stolen property and tried to extort you.
你不应该跟在一个记者后面，仅仅因为他们购买了偷来的专利，然后试图敲诈你’。
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3. Tying this trade issue to talk of a bailout looked to be a heavy-handed attempt to extort trade concessions out of Brussels at a moment of European vulnerability.
把这种贸易问题同经济救助挂钩，使之看起来象一个性质严重的敲诈企图- 在欧洲最虚弱的时候，敲诈布鲁塞尔，以得到贸易优惠。
- extort (v.) 1520s (as a past participle adj. from early 15c.), "obtain by force or compulsion; wrest away by oppressive means," from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere "obtain by force," literally "to wrench out," from ex "out" (see ex-) + torquere "to twist" (from PIE root *terkw- "to twist"). Related: Extorted; extorting.
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