1.~ sth (from sb)敲诈;勒索;强夺to make sb give you sth by threatening them
The gang extorted money from over 30 local businesses.这帮歹徒向当地 30 多家企业勒索过钱财。
The problem, as he saw it, was that workers could use the threat of industrial unrest to "extort" money from their bosses.
他认为,问题在于,工人们会用罢工威胁向老板们“勒索”。
I'm not trying to extort money from you but the law requires that you pay me a $300 fine.
警官说,“我不是在勒索你,但法律规定,你得交300美元的罚款。”
She did at last extort from her father an acknowledgment that the horses were engaged.
她终于让父亲承认了拉车的马没有空
Mr Mikheev testified to police later that the case against them was an attempt by VTB employees to extort a cut of the loan for themselves.
费奥多尔后来向警方作证称,他们之所以被指控,是因为VTB雇员试图敲诈一部分贷款。
If crime people are out of purposes to extort property, and arrest , take others into custody illegally , commit the crime of kidnapping.
如果犯罪人是出于勒索财物的目的,而非法扣押、拘禁他人,则构成绑架罪。
If operators were allowed to charge for better service, they could extort protection money from every website.
如果运营商得到允许,让用户为其服务质量付费的话,他们可能到每一家网站收取保护费。
Abetted by corrupt or intimidated judges, bureaucrats blackmail and shake down entrepreneurs; traffic police terrorize and extort motorists.
在腐败的或受到恐吓的法官教唆下,官僚们敲诈勒索企业家;交警恐吓勒索驾驶人。
This mission require you to extort information from him.
这个任务要求你从他那里取得信息。
They plan to use him to extort a large amount of money.
他们打算用这个男孩来勒索大笔的钱财。
Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
如同智者也不会因大自然奥秘、发现其完美,而丧失对其好奇之心。
Such stunts happen at the murkier end of internet commerce: for instance, to extort money from an online casino.
这些绝招之所以能奏效源于电子商务中存在错误的漏洞-比如,可以向网络夜总会赌场进行敲诈金钱。
Along the voyage , painted armed vessels of unknown origin will appear to extort money from the refugees .
在航路上,不知来历重新上漆的军舰会出现来敛财。
A more recent definition is : a bargain is a dirty trick to extort money from the pockets of silly and innocent people.
而现今对于廉价货的定义是,它是从那些愚蠢无知的人们的口袋里敲诈金钱的肮脏的圈套。
But many Uzbeks claim the security forces are using that as a pretext to extort money from residents.
但是许多乌兹别克斯坦人声称,安全力量用此作为向居民敲诈勒索的接口。
He was tortured by police in order to extort a guilty confession and when news of this was made public, it astounded the entire country.
他被警方屈打成招,当这条新闻向大众公开的时候,全国都震惊了。
Sing attempts to extort money from one of the ordinary locals, but the neighbors are not what they appear.
星仔试图在一个叫“猪笼城寨”的地方对居民敲诈,却不知道他们个个身怀绝技。
Bribery is also common; government inspectors are known to extort monthly payments from the clerks who sell the subsidized grain.
在这里,贿赂很常见;那些贩卖补贴粮食的办事员每个月都要向政府的巡视员缴纳月供,这种勒索手段在当地尽人皆知。
The police used torture to extort a confession from him.
警方对他严刑逼供。
They communicated with the police by leaving notes, and they attempted to extort money to stop the shootings.
他们通过留便条的方式向警方传递信息,并试图以停止杀人为条件进行敲诈。
If a mobile company could use the threat of blocking a service to extort higher fees, would innovation be stopped in its tracks?
如果一家移动公司能够以屏蔽某项服务为威胁来逼迫使用者支付更高费用,创新是否会胎死腹中?
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