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 shakedown ['ʃeikdaun]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 便床, 整顿, 调整

a. 试航的

[化] 安定状态




    shakedown
    [ noun ]
    1. initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state

    2. <noun.event>
      the new industry's economic shakedown
    3. a very thorough search of a person or a place

    4. <noun.act>
      a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs
    5. extortion of money (as by blackmail)

    6. <noun.act>
    [ adj ]
    1. intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system

    2. <adj.pert>
      a shakedown cruise


    Shakedown \Shake"down`\, n.
    A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or
    on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of
    straw for this purpose. --Sir W. Scott.

    1. As a precaution, the U.S. shuttle included ejection seats for the two pilots who flew early shakedown missions.
    2. What I was trying to do (with the memo) was to jerk the system around so it would do a little science." Since Hubble has been launched, it has been in a shakedown operation designed to test it capabilities.
    3. Some analysts say that, as in the U.S., the Mexican market just needed a good shakedown to weed out the speculators and the highly leveraged accounts.
    4. But Covey said because of 210 modifications made to the orbiter, the crew in essence will be making a shakedown flight of a new spacecraft. "We will have time to concentrate on those changes," he said.
    5. Gore called it a "shakedown" by a "godfather"-like "cable Cosa Nostra" in which any new programming source first must get approval from a half-dozen major cable operators before it can even think of proceeding.
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