ransom基本解释
n.赎金；赎身；赎回
vt.赎回
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名词: ransomer 过去式: ransomed 过去分词: ransomed 现在分词: ransoming 第三人称单数: ransoms
ransom
基本词汇
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基本词汇
n.赎金；赎身；赎回
vt.赎回
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名词: ransomer 过去式: ransomed 过去分词: ransomed 现在分词: ransoming 第三人称单数: ransoms
ransom
noun
1. the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
2. payment for the release of someone
3. money demanded for the return of a captured person
Synonym: ransom money
verb
1. exchange or buy back for money
under threat
Synonym: redeem
1. 赎价；赎金
A ransom is the money that has to be paid to someone so that they will set free a person they have kidnapped.
e.g. Her kidnapper successfully extorted a £75,000 ransom for her release...
绑匪成功地勒索了7.5万英镑才将她释放。
e.g. The president has said the United States will never pay ransom for the hostages...
总统称美国永远不会为这些人质支付赎金。
2. 赎回；赎出
If you ransom someone who has been kidnapped, you pay the money to set them free.
e.g. The same system was used for ransoming or exchanging captives.
相同的制度还应用于赎回或交换俘虏。
3. 劫持（某人）勒索金钱;绑票;绑架
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.
e.g. He is charged with kidnapping a businessman last year and holding him for ransom...
他被控于去年绑架了一名商人并勒索钱财。
e.g. In Rio, nearly forty people have been held to ransom this year alone...
在里约热内卢，仅今年一年就有近40人被绑票。
4. 威胁;胁迫
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.
e.g. Unison and the other unions have the power to hold the Government to ransom.
公务员工会和其他工会有能力胁迫政府。
5. 一大笔钱;巨款
If you refer to a sum of money as a king's ransom, you are emphasizing that it is very large.
e.g. ...clients happy to pay a king's ransom for a haircut.
乐意为理发出高价的顾客
1.
1. 赎金风暴：据中影的工作人员介绍,<>的情节有些类似梅尔.吉布森主演的卖座影片 <>(Ransom),两者讲的都是有关用金钱救赎家人的故事,影片的目标观众是福伯的铁杆影迷以及喜欢动作惊险片的观众,
2. 綁票追緝令：当然最后我们了解这部电影是强烈反暴力的,但被断章取义的话呢?我读到报导说有些新纳粹主义者在电影院里对那些煽动性演说与施暴桥段欢呼. 就像[绑票追缉令](Ransom)现在变成匪徒的圣经一样,[美国X档案]可能也会变成新纳粹主义的圣经.
1. a king's ransom : 一笔巨款；
2. hold sb. to ransom : 绑票；
He would not pay the ransom demanded for his kidnapped grandson.
出自：S. NaipaulThose tears..are rich, and ransom all ill deeds.
出自：Sonnets,Shakespeare
