ransom
n. 付贖金救人,贖金; [神]贖罪
vt. 贖回; [神]贖救
A ransom is the money that has to be paid to someone so that they will set free a person they have kidnapped.
Her kidnapper successfully extorted a £75,000 ransom for her release...
綁匪成功地勒索了7.5萬英鎊才將她釋放。
The president has said the United States will never pay ransom for the hostages...
總統稱美國永遠不會為這些人質支付贖金。
If you ransom someone who has been kidnapped, you pay the money to set them free.
The same system was used for ransoming or exchanging captives.
相同的制度還應用於贖回或交換俘虜。
If a kidnapper is holding someone to ransom or holding them ransom in British English, or is holding a person for ransom in American English, they keep that person prisoner until they are given what they want.
He is charged with kidnapping a businessman last year and holding him for ransom...
他被控於去年綁架了一名商人並勒索錢財。
In Rio, nearly forty people have been held to ransom this year alone...
在里約熱內盧,僅今年一年就有近40人被綁票。
If you say that someone is holding you to ransom in British English, or holding you for ransom in American English, you mean that they are using their power to try to force you to do something which you do not want to do.
Unison and the other unions have the power to hold the Government to ransom.
公務員工會和其他工會有能力脅迫政府。
If you refer to a sum of money as a king's ransom, you are emphasizing that it is very large.
...clients happy to pay a king's ransom for a haircut.
樂意為理髮出高價的顧客
1. money demanded for the return of a captured person
2. payment for the release of someone
3. the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
1. exchange or buy back for money; under threat
hold someone/thing to ransom
擄…索贖,綁…的票
a king's ransom
大筆錢財;大筆財富
The ransom demand was made by telephone.
贖金是透過電話索要的。
They have to pay a large ransom.
他們不得不付一大筆贖金.
In Rio, nearly forty people have been held to ransom this year alone.
在里約熱內盧,僅今年一年就有近40人被綁票。
He is charged with kidnapping a businessman last year and holding him for ransom.
他被控於去年綁架了一名商人並勒索錢財。
The police caught the man who tried to abduct the boy for ransom.
警察抓住了那個企圖拐走這男孩以便勒索贖金的傢伙.