英:[ˈblækmeɪl]
美:[ˈblækmeɪl]
英:[ˈblækmeɪl]
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black·mail
blaek meIl
第三人称单数:blackmails
现在分词:blackmailing
过去式:blackmailed
过去分词:blackmailed
blackmailer (n.)
词根:blackmail
n.blackmailer 勒索者;敲诈者
noun
payment forced by threats to reveal damaging information; extortion.The crook made his living from blackmail and swindling.
the process of forcing such payment or attempting to do so.
transitive verb
to force or attempt to force (someone) to pay money or perform some action under the threat of having damaging information revealed.
1550年代,“向与罪犯结盟的人支付的保护费,以防止抢劫等行为”,来自 black(形容词)和中古英语 male “租金,贡品”。这来自古英语 mal “诉讼,条款,讨价还价,协议”,源自古诺尔斯语 mal “言语,协议”,与古英语 mæðel “会议,委员会”, mæl “言语”,哥特语 maþl “会议场所”有关,源自原始日耳曼语 *mathla-, 源自原始印欧语 *mod- “相遇,集合”(见 meet(v.))。
这个词来自苏格兰和英格兰北部的自由掠夺氏族首领,他们对农民进行保护费勒索。这种习俗一直持续到18世纪中期, Black 了这种恶习。这个词的意义在1826年扩大,指任何通过恐吓手段勒索,特别是通过曝光或丑闻的威胁。比较 silver mail “以货币支付的租金”(1590年代); buttock-mail(苏格兰语,1530年代)“因通奸而处以罚款”。
勒索
black >entry 1 + mail >entry 4
The first known use of blackmail was in 1552
blackoutnoun
a period when lights are kept off to guard against enemy airplane attack in a war
a period when lights are off as a result of an electrical power failure
a temporary dulling or loss of vision or consciousness
blackmailnoun
the act of forcing a person to do or pay something especially by a threat to reveal a secret
something (as money) obtained through blackmail
blackmailnoun
the act of forcing a person to do or pay something especially by a threat to reveal a secret
something (as money) obtained through blackmail
1 The crime syndicate has the goods on the governor and is blackmailing him.
那个罪魁集团掌握了州长的确凿罪证并且正在敲诈他.
2 Take it easy; anger won't help any more than blackmail did.
3 I remember feeling dimly that there was a kind of blackmail in it.
4 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。
5 Cole will soon be blackmailed by Oscar who returns to his old ways.
6 “When that didn’t work, they targeted our audience and began to photograph and film the people who came to our shows and blackmail them.”
7 And this very fact underscores the reason we cannot live under the threat of blackmail.
而这一事实进一步强调了我们不能在讹诈的威胁下生活.
8 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.
9 Former television producer Robert Halderman, who pleaded guilty to the blackmail attempt, is scheduled to be sentenced next week.
10 Together these two quietly save Graham from a gay police officer who is blackmailing him.
11 We first encounter Blofeld in the novel Thunderball where he masterminds the theft of two nuclear bombs and uses them to blackmail the world's governments.
12 Second, she is using her tears as emotional blackmail, a form of manipulation, and he resents it.
第二,她利用她的眼泪进行情感勒索,作为一种操纵方式,他讨厌这样。
13 Elsewhere, Kimmy uses her own covered-up workplace harassment case as blackmail to help launch a children’s book series that teaches little boys not to be perverts.
14 This is emotional blackmail.
这就是情感敲诈。
15 They tend to withhold sex as a punishment or blackmail.
她们以不过性生活作为对男人的惩罚或者借此勒索.
16 Maybe he’s just going to blackmail me first.
17 emotional/moral blackmail
情感上 / 道德上胁迫
18 Except for the fact that he’s blackmailing me.
19 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。
20 Hazel was still seething from his blackmail threats earlier.
1 恐吓
bucko threat menace bluster spook threaten intimidate terrorize bulldoze concuss psych put the frighteners on put the screws on threatening menacing minatory intimidatory cow chill bully horrify scare into doing put the fear of God into lean on
2 勒索
extortion shakedown exaction screw extort racket squeeze out of milk racketeer exact wring extortionate robbery spoliation levy flay racketeering shake down screw from of screw out of bleed strike shake squeeze lug scrouge chantage draw press force crowd shark sweat pinch tease cadge exacting high-pressure holdup bot garnish hijack grub put the frighteners on screw out put the acid on squeeze out extorsive bloodsucking extorsively
3 敲诈
ramp extortion exaction screw rob sting rook extort flay racket shakedown squeeze out of rapacious rip-off robbery vampirism spoliation fleece gazump soak put the screws on racketeering shake down gyp prey upon screw from of screw out of prey on rip off gouge shake squeeze lug sponge wring cadge chantage pole bot stick clip ransom put the frighteners on squeeze out extorsive knavishly gazumping bleed
4 胁迫
duress sandbag stand over put the frighteners on put the arm on coercion coerce bulldoze bully bludgeon daunt bounce coercive cow hold to ransom put the screws on pressure intimidate strong-arm a turn of the screw threat menace standover bluster blackjack concuss highjack
5 保护费
6 威胁
threatening menacing minatory intimidatory darkly threat danger menace threaten cow intimidate terrorize beset scare into doing lean on
8 要挟