badger game 美人计, 敲诈
- I'm afraid you're a victim of the badger game. The woman wasn't the man's wife, but just someone he hired for the job.
恐怕你中了美人计,那个女人并不是那个男人的老婆,而只是他雇来干这种勾当的。 - Sitting behind a couple of nuns at the football game, three men decided to badger the nuns in an effort, to get them to move.
三个男人坐在两个修女的后面看足球赛。他们决定想个法子让她俩走开。 - Toad rather suspected what he was after, and did his best to get away; but when the Badger took him firmly by the other arm he began to see that the game was up.
蟾蜍立刻猜到河鼠的来意,想要挣脱;可是当獾紧紧抓住他的另一只胳臂时,他明白,事情败露了。
Badger game \Badg"er game\
The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a
compromising situation and extorting money by threats of
exposure. [Cant]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]