名词付赎金救人，赎金; [神]赎罪
及物动词赎回; [神]赎救
1. a king's ransom : 一笔巨款；
2. hold sb. to ransom : 绑票；
1. a king's ransom : 一笔巨款；
2. hold sb. to ransom : 绑票；
及物动词
1. ransom
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。
名词
1. They held the travellers for ransom.
他们将旅客当作人质索取赎金。
2. The rich man was asked to pay a high ransom for his daughter who was taken away by criminals.
要求这位富人为被罪犯绑架走的女儿付一大笔赎金。
1. ransom
1. 赎金风暴：据中影的工作人员介绍,<<防火墙>>的情节有些类似梅尔.吉布森主演的卖座影片 <<赎金风暴>>(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. 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.
ransom的解释
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.
ransom
e.g. ...clients happy to pay a king's ransom for a haircut.
乐意为理发出高价的顾客