ransom
noun /ˈrænsəm/
/ˈrænsəm/
[countable, uncountable]Idioms - money that is paid to somebody so that they will set free a person who is being kept as a prisoner by them
赎金 - The kidnappers demanded a ransom of £50 000 from his family.
绑架者向他的家人索要赎金 5 万英镑。 - a ransom demand/note
索要赎金的要求／通知 - ransom money
赎金 - They are refusing to pay ransom for her release.
他们拒绝支付赎金来解救她。 - They stole cattle for ransom.
他们偷牛以勒索赎金。
Collocations Dictionaryverb + ransom- hold somebody for
- hold somebody to
- kidnap somebody for
- …
- demand
- note
- money
- …
- for ransom
词源Middle English: from Old French ransoun (noun), ransouner (verb), from Latin redemptio(n-) ‘ransoming, releasing’, from redimere ‘buy back’, from re- ‘back’ + emere ‘buy’. Early use also occurred in theological contexts expressing ‘deliverance’ and ‘atonement’. - The kidnappers demanded a ransom of £50 000 from his family.
Idioms
hold somebody to ransom
- to keep somebody as a prisoner and demand that other people pay you an amount of money before you set them free
将…绑票 - (disapproving) to take action that puts somebody in a very difficult situation in order to force them to do what you want
胁迫；要挟 - The company refused to be held to ransom by the union.
这家公司拒绝了工会的要挟。
- The company refused to be held to ransom by the union.
a king’s ransom
- (literary) a very large amount of money
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