1. [U][C]付赎金救人；赎金 freeing of a captive upon payment;the money paid

1. money demanded for the return of a captured person

2. payment for the release of someone

3. the act of freeing from captivity or punishment

1. exchange or buy back for money; under threat

1.赎价；赎金
Aransom 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 £75,000ransom 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 payransom 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 youransom 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 kidnapperis holding someoneto ransom orholding themransom in British English, oris holding a personfor 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 forransom...
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 toransom 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 someoneis holding youto ransom in British English, orholding youfor 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 toransom.
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 asa king's ransom, you are emphasizing that it is very large.

e.g. ...clients happy to pay a king'sransom for a haircut.
乐意为理发出高价的顾客

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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. You are our prisoner now and we won't release you until a ransom is paid.
   你现已遭我们禁锢,要到交出赎金以后,才能放你走。
2. They have to pay a large ransom.
   他们不得不付一大笔赎金。
3. They held the travellers for ransom.
   他们将旅客当作人质索取赎金。
4. A king's ransom would hardly have procured all that my daughters asked for.
   即使是一个国王的赎身钱，也买不起我的女儿们所要的东西。
5. The family paid a ransom of 50000 dollars for the child's release.
   那家人为了赎回孩子付了5万美元。

1. They ransomed the kidnapped child with 10,000 dollars.
   他们用一万元赎回了被绑架的孩子。

1. They have to pay a large ransom.
   他们不得不付一大笔赎金。

• ransom">pay a large ransom付一大笔赎金

• ransom%20bill">ransom bill付赎保证金

• He would not pay the ransom demanded for his kidnapped grandson.

  出自：S. Naipaul

• Those tears..are rich, and ransom all ill deeds.

  出自：Sonnets,Shakespeare