His writing is elegant and urbane, full of paradoxes, aphorisms and conceits: The sky has powdered the taiga, shaking velvety down over the vert-de-bronze of the cedars.

他的作语优美、雅致，充满悖论、各种金句、天马行空的幻想：天空粉饰那针叶林，轻柔地散落在青绿杉树之上。

" I'm not! And if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty, " cried Jo, pulling off her net, and shaking down a chestnut mane.

“我不是！如果卷上头发就使我变成了小姐，那我梳两条辫子，直到二十岁，”乔边叫边把发网扯掉，让头栗色的长发披散下。

When someone shakes you down, it is called a shake down.

当某人敲诈你的时候，这种情况就叫 a shake down。

You think you can shake us down?

你觉得你能敲诈我们？

Time, then, to shake down pension funds.

那么，是时候搜查养老基金了。

Are you shaking me down? - No.

你是在勒索我吗？ - 不是。

Snapper Carr hasn't sent you here to shake me down.

史力柏·卡尔没有派你贬损我。

It feels like they're shaking you down for that $10.

感觉他们是在为了那10美元敲诈你。

His trial rekindled memories of a bygone era of Boston history in which mobsters shook down local business owners and killed their rivals in telephone booths before burying their bodies in shallow graves.

对他的审判使人们想起波士顿的段过往的历史，当时暴徒打击当地企业主，在电话亭杀死对手，然后将之埋葬到浅坟墓里。

Certainly, he said. We were informed this morning that some neighborhood bully has been shaking this boy down for more than a month.

“当然可，”他说，“今天早上我们得到通知，说附近有个恶棍个月直在勒索这个小男孩。

Another describes a " continuous parade of government types coming through my office trying to shake me down."

“不断有各种各样的政府官员到我的办公室，试图让我下台。”

Seems like you're shaking us down.

看你想敲诈我们。

Rather than shaking down the fearful leaders for minerals deals, Sutton risks her life for them.

与其向恐惧的领导人敲诈矿物交易，萨顿冒着生命危险保护他们。

He thinks he can shake down other countries this way.

他认为他可通过这种方式敲诈其他国家。

So they can't shake you down quite as much, in other words, essentially.

因此，他们无法再那么轻易地向你施压，换之，基本上就是这样。

He's gonna shake down this corporation and say, you acted badly, you're gonna be punished.

他打算向这家公司施压，声称：“你们行为不当，将会受到惩罚。”

Though I did think it might shake down some of those tall chimneys'.

虽然我确实认为它可能会动摇那些高大的烟囱。

It's Michael. He thinks he's being shaken down by the mob.

是迈克尔, 他认为自己被暴徒推倒了。

In particular, I feared that the sheer-fronted Sentinel Rock, towering above my cabin, would be shaken down, and I took shelter back of a large yellow pine, hoping that it might protect me from at least the smaller outbounding boulders.

特别是，我担心高耸于我的小屋上方的陡峭前哨哨兵岩石会被摇下，所我躲在棵大黄松后面，希望它至可保护我免受较小的外出巨石的伤害。

And right now it's starting to look like if you don't obey these rules, right, you get shaked down and you don't get as much access as the people who are willing to carry water for the administration.

而且现在看起，如果你不遵守这些规则，就会被敲诈勒索，而那些愿意为政府站台的人则能获得更多资源和机会。