Kotaro Isakaの小説 "Bullet Train" を読んでいます。
Kimura shook him off. If it was a bunch of teenage boys, they were probably hanging out smoking cigarettes or horsing around, or else planning some shakedown or shoplifting, and he thought he might like to go in and have a little fun with him. He was feeling grouchy from lack of drink and he wanted to blow off some steam.
文脈からすると "shakedown" は何か悪事の一種ですね。辞書を見ます。
・Wiktionary: Extortion, especially through blackmail
・Cambridge English Dictionary: the act of getting money from someone by using threats: Her lawyers say the suit is a shakedown, an attempt to get her to pay them off.
・Longman Dictionary: when someone gets money from another person by using threats: a Mafia shakedown
Kimura shook him off. If it was a bunch of teenage boys, they were probably hanging out smoking cigarettes or horsing around, or else planning some shakedown or shoplifting, and he thought he might like to go in and have a little fun with him. He was feeling grouchy from lack of drink and he wanted to blow off some steam.
文脈からすると "shakedown" は何か悪事の一種ですね。辞書を見ます。
・Wiktionary: Extortion, especially through blackmail
・Cambridge English Dictionary: the act of getting money from someone by using threats: Her lawyers say the suit is a shakedown, an attempt to get her to pay them off.
・Longman Dictionary: when someone gets money from another person by using threats: a Mafia shakedown
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