shake down

基本解释

A President is in a sense lucky if he is faced with a crisis early on; it enables him to shake down his team.
在某种意义上说，一个总统能早点遇到危机是件幸运的事，因为这使他可以调整好他的班子。
Pakistan’s leaders, after all, cooperate with the drones and exploit popular anti-American sentiment to shake down Washington. The strikes become cards for Pakistan to play, however cynically.
实际上无人机并不是造成障碍的元凶，巴基斯坦当局一方面支持这些无人机行动，一方面又在利用反美情绪和华盛顿周旋，讽刺的是这些攻击成为了巴基斯坦手上的一张牌。
We had some small problems at the shake-down in the UK and those that we had today were not physical problems but little issues with the installation.
我们在英国做的遥感测试表明有一些小问题，但我们今天在赛车本身上没有问题，除了在配置上有一些小问题外。
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Little Rock's a fine town. Now, shake down your gear.
Then a bunch of terrible things obviously begin to happen that shake the security of this society, and ultimately bring it down.
然后,显然一些可怕的事情开始发生了,它动摇了社会的安定,最终导致其崩溃
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Then a sudden and violent wind began to shake the tree and its leaves kept coming down all around me.

Is Grassley's ploy a ham-fisted attempt to shake down rich Wall Streeters for campaign contributions?
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If someone shakes you down, they use threats or search you physically in order to obtain something from you.
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