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To extort something is to make a person give it to you by threat — most often money. It is a crime. A gang that says “pay us or we hurt your shop” is trying to extort money. Police and news reports use this word. Though actually, writers also stretch it a little: someone may extort a promise or a confession by fear or pressure, even when a court might use a more exact name. The core picture stays the same: you twist it out of someone; they did not give it freely. It is not a word for ordinary asking, and it is not the same as a hard bargain between two people who can both walk away.
勒索、敲詐
組成From Latin extortus, past participle of extorquēre, “to twist or wrench out”: ex- (out) + torqueō (twist, turn).
同家族的字
- extortionthe noun for the crime or the act
- torturesame Latin “twist” root (torqueō)
- distorttwist out of shape; same root
- retortoriginally “twist back”; now a sharp reply, or a lab flask
- contorttwist the body; same root
- torquea twisting force; same root
- torta civil wrong in law, from the same “twisted” Latin
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
extortverb/ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/
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To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
- to extort contributions from the vanquished
- to extort confessions of guilt
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lawTo obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
- Weirdly, Renton doesn’t look too much older and the same also goes for Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), who has exchanged heroin for cocaine and nowadays runs an escort-and-blackmail business, secretly videoing clients and extorting money, working with his female business partner, Veronika (Anjela Nedyalkova).
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medicineophthalmologysciencesTo twist outwards.
extortadj/ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/
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obsoleteExtorted; obtained by extortion.
- Hauing great Lordships got and goodly farmes, Through strong oppression of his powre extort.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。