流逝汉英词典

blackmail

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈblæk.meɪl]
  • 美式音标 [ˈblæk.meɪl]
  • 国际音标 ['blækmeil]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n. 勒索，敲詐；勒索所得之款；脇迫
  • v. 勒索，敲詐；脇迫；利用他人感情哄騙

词根记忆

  • black(黑) + mail(寄信)→寄黑信→敲詐

同根派生

  • n性質的同根詞
    blackmailer：勒索者；敲詐者。

用法辨析

    v. (動詞)

  • blackmail的基本意思是“敲詐，勒索”“要挾，脇迫”，多指以威脇曏他人講出某人的秘密爲手段而敲詐某人的錢財或脇迫其做某事。
  • blackmail是及物動詞，以被敲詐勒索的人爲賓語，其後有時可接介詞短語“into n./v -ing”表示“脇迫某人做某事”。
  • 表示“以…要挾”用介詞by。

英汉例句

    用作動詞 (v.)

    用作及物動詞: S+ ～+n./pron.

  • Don't think you can blackmail me.
    不要以爲你能要挾我。

    • S+ ～+n./pron. +into n./v -ing

  • I don't believe the policy of power politics can blackmail us into submission.
    我們不信實力政策能夠訛詐我們屈服。

    • 用作名詞 (n.)

  • The foreign minister declared in a statement to the press that he would never submit to blackmail.
    外長曏新聞界發表的聲明中宣稱他絕不屈服於訛詐。

词组短语

    短語

  • moral blackmail 精神威脇
  • to blackmail 詐騙;訛詐
  • blackmail l 敲詐;脇迫;訛詐;步步疑雲
  • practice blackmail 進行勒索
  • blackmail sb 訛人

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • the act of getting money from people or forcing them to do something by threatening to tell a secret of theirs or to harm them
  • to get money from someone by blackmail

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • Blackmail is the action of threatening to reveal a secret about someone, unless they do something you tell them to do, such as giving you money.
  • If you describe an action as emotional or moral blackmail, you disapprove of it because someone is using a person's emotions or moral values to persuade them to do something against their will.
  • If one person blackmails another person, they use blackmail against them.
  • blackmailer

专业释义

    法學

  • 敲詐
  • 恐嚇索財

    • 經濟學

  • 勒索

    • 交通運輸工程

  • 訛詐