Ransom
['ræns(ə)m] or ['rænsəm]
解释:
(noun.) the act of freeing from captivity or punishment.
(noun.) payment for the release of someone.
(noun.) money demanded for the return of a captured person.
(verb.) exchange or buy back for money; under threat.
阿琳整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
(n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
(n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
(n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
(n.) To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
海丝特编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Price of redemption.[2]. Release, liberation, redemption.
v. a. [1]. Redeem.[2]. Rescue, liberate, deliver.
编辑:梅尔维尔
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Redeem, release, indemnify, emancipate, free, liberate, unfetter, redeem
ANT:Prosecute, indict, fine, mulct, forfeit, damnify
手打:丽贝卡
解释:
n. price paid for redemption from captivity or punishment: release from captivity: atonement: expiation.—v.t. to redeem from captivity punishment or ownership: (Shak.) to set free for a price: (Shak.) to expiate.—adj. Ran′somable.—n. Ran′somer.—adj. Ran′somless without ransom: incapable of being ransomed.
整理:梅尔巴
娱乐性解释：
To dream that a ransom is made for you, you will find that you are deceived and worked for money on all sides. For a young woman, this is prognostic of evil, unless some one pays the ransom and relieves her.
黛布拉整理
娱乐性解释：
n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller nor can belong to the buyer. The most unprofitable of investments.
编辑:维尔玛
例句:
- The ransom must be paid by love and beauty, and in no other coin will I accept it. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Let us put the Jew to ransom, since the leopard will not change his spots, and a Jew he will continue to be. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I also detached a brigade under Ransom to Natchez, to garrison that place permanently. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- I pray thee be more conformable in this matter of my ransom. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Call them pro-Germans, international financiers, or profiteers, and they will give you any ransom you choose to ask not to speak of them so harshly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The emperor sued for pardon, and paid a great ransom. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- You are both rich, and can pay large ransoMs You scoundrel, you have been putting these brigand ideas into the old man's head. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Speak, Jew--have I not ransomed thee from Sathanas? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- This provoked the Seventh Crusade, the Crusade of St. Louis, King of France (Louis IX), who was taken prisoner in Egypt and ransomed in 1250. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- On rising, another struck up a Methodist hymn, of which the burden was, The year of Jubilee is come,-- Return, ye ransomed sinners, home. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
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