ransoms

英 [ˈrænsəmz]

美 [ˈrænsəmz]

n.  赎金
v.  (为某人)交付赎金
ransom的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 赎价；赎金
  Aransomis the money that has to be paid to someone so that they will set free a person they have kidnapped.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. The ransom demand was made by telephone.
     赎金是通过电话索要的。
• VERB 赎回；赎出
  If youransomsomeone who has been kidnapped, you pay the money to set them free.
  1. 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。
• PHRASE 劫持（某人）勒索金钱;绑票;绑架
  If a kidnapperis holdingsomeoneto ransomorholdingthemransomin British English, oris holdinga personfor ransomin American English, they keep that person prisoner until they are given what they want.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. A busload of schoolchildren were held ransom until the gang were given a plane.
     直到给了绑匪们一架飞机，他们才将全车的学童们释放。
• PHRASE 威胁;胁迫
  If you say that someoneis holdingyouto ransomin British English, orholdingyoufor ransomin 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.
  1. 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。
• PHRASE 一大笔钱;巨款
  If you refer to a sum of money asa king's ransom, you are emphasizing that it is very large.
  1. ...clients happy to pay a king's ransom for a haircut.
     乐意为理发出高价的顾客

双语例句

• As Somali pirates become ever more audacious, they are regularly portrayed in the press as vicious aggressors, taking innocent people hostage, only to auction them off at vast ransoms.
  随着索马里海盗越来越猖獗，媒体经常把他们描绘成狠毒歹徒：把无辜的人抓为人质，勒索巨额赎金后才肯放人。
• These days the pirates are a lot more sophisticated and better organised, with powerful speedboats, mother ships in the high seas, heavy weapons, satellite equipment, and negotiators abroad who handle ransoms.
  近来，在配用马力强劲的快艇，借助驶入公海的母舰，加上应用重型武器，卫星设备，和国外赎金协商人员，海盗正更为先进更为有效地组织着。
• The kidnappers exacted ransoms for their hostages.
  绑匪勒索人质的赎金。
• If ransoms are paid, as they have been before, more kidnappings are likely.
  如果像以前一样支付赎金，那么，很可能就会有更多的绑架案发生。
• The Somali government officially opposes the payment of ransoms, but the practice has become routine.
  索马里政府官方反对缴纳赎金，但是缴纳赎金似乎已成惯例。
• Some reckon that the Shabab shares some of the ransoms earned by pirates who operate out of the central Somali port of Haradheere.
  有些人猜测青年党和在索马里中部的哈拉尔代雷港口外活跃的海盗有分赃关系。
• The western approach of surreptitiously paying ransoms has turned rats into tigers.
  西方私下付赎金的方式只会养虎为患。
• The Chandlers'plight became one of the most high-profile hostage cases in Somalia's recent, troubled history but the British government has a strict policy of not paying any ransoms.
  钱德勒的境况成为索马里近代多灾多难的历史上最高级别人质案例之一，但英国政府有不支付任何赎金的严格政策。
• As ransoms go up and get paid, pirates will think it worth taking the risk.
  伴随着赎金的提高和获赎，海盗认为这个风险是值得冒的。
• They found that the Spanish managed to pay lower ransoms by dragging talks out.
  他们发现，西班牙人通过延长谈判时间，成功地减少了赎金。