blackmail
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，敲诈；勒索所得之款；胁迫
- v. 勒索，敲诈；胁迫；利用他人感情哄骗
词根记忆
- black(黑) + mail(寄信)→寄黑信→敲诈
同根派生
- n性质的同根词
- blackmailer：勒索者；敲诈者。
用法辨析
- blackmail的基本意思是“敲诈，勒索”“要挟，胁迫”，多指以威胁向他人讲出某人的秘密为手段而敲诈某人的钱财或胁迫其做某事。
- blackmail是及物动词，以被敲诈勒索的人为宾语，其后有时可接介词短语“into n./v -ing”表示“胁迫某人做某事”。
- 表示“以…要挟”用介词by。
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- Don't think you can blackmail me.
不要以为你能要挟我。 - I don't believe the policy of power politics can blackmail us into submission.
我们不信实力政策能够讹诈我们屈服。 - The foreign minister declared in a statement to the press that he would never submit to blackmail.
外长向新闻界发表的声明中宣称他绝不屈服于讹诈。
用作动词 (v.)
用作及物动词: S+ ～+n./pron.
S+ ～+n./pron. +into n./v -ing
用作名词 (n.)
词组短语
- moral blackmail 精神威胁
- to blackmail 诈骗;讹诈
- blackmail l 敲诈;胁迫;讹诈;步步疑云
- practice blackmail 进行勒索
- blackmail sb 讹人
短语
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
- 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
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专业释义
- 敲诈
- 恐吓索财
- 勒索
- 讹诈