ransom
柯林斯詞典
1. N-VAR A ransom is the money that has to be paid to someone so that they will set free a person they have kidnapped. 贖金
Her kidnapper successfully extorted a $250,000 ransom for her release. 綁架者們成功地勒索了25萬美元的贖金才釋放她。
2. V-T If you ransom someone who has been kidnapped, you pay the money to set them free. 贖出
The same system was used for ransoming or exchanging captives. 同一系統(tǒng)也被用來贖回或交換俘虜。
3. PHRASE If a kidnapper is holding a person for ransom, they keep that person prisoner until they are given what they want. 劫持某人以勒取贖金
He is charged with kidnapping a businessman last year and holding him for ransom. 他被指控去年綁架了一名商人并挾持他以勒索贖金。
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ransom /?r?ns?m/ (ransoming,ransomed,ransoms)
劍橋詞典
- a large amount of money that is demanded in exchange for someone who has been taken prisoner , or sometimes for an animal
贖金
a ransom demand /note 索要贖金／勒索贖金的字條
They demanded a huge ransom for the return of the little girl whom they had kidnapped . 他們索要巨額贖金作為放回被綁小女孩的條件。
The gang held the racehorse to/for ransom. 這個犯罪團(tuán)伙扣留了賽馬，以此勒索贖金。