ransoms的中文翻譯是什麼意思
ransoms
n. 付贖金救人，贖金( ransom的名詞複數 )
v. 付贖金救人，贖金( ransom的第三人稱單數 )
ransoms的柯林斯釋義
N-VAR贖價；贖金
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。
VERB贖回；贖出
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。
PHRASE劫持（某人）勒索金錢;綁票;綁架
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。
PHRASE威脅;脅迫
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。
PHRASE一大筆錢;鉅款
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
ransoms的場景例句
The kidnappers exacted ransoms for their hostages.
綁匪勒索人質的贖金.
Hotel: Wealthy captives sleep at the hotel for an increase in their ransoms.
酒店: 富有的俘虜們要住在酒店等待足夠的贖金以回家.
Mine ransoms yours and yours must ransom me.
我贖你的罪,你也贖我的敗行.
As ransoms go up and get paid, pirates will think it worth taking the risk.
這個理由還是很有道理的:贖金越來越高,而且還能順利拿到手.難怪海盜會覺得值得冒這個險.