Ransom
['ræns(ə)m] or ['rænsəm]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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.
海丝特編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Price of redemption.[2]. Release, liberation, redemption.
v. a. [1]. Redeem.[2]. Rescue, liberate, deliver.
編輯:梅尔维尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Redeem, release, indemnify, emancipate, free, liberate, unfetter, redeem
ANT:Prosecute, indict, fine, mulct, forfeit, damnify
手打:丽贝卡
解釋/意思:
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
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller nor can belong to the buyer. The most unprofitable of investments.
編輯:维尔玛
例句/造句/用法:
- The ransom must be paid by love and beauty, and in no other coin will I accept it. 沃爾特·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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Let us put the Jew to ransom, since the leopard will not change his spots, and a Jew he will continue to be. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I also detached a brigade under Ransom to Natchez, to garrison that place permanently. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I pray thee be more conformable in this matter of my ransom. 沃爾特·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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The emperor sued for pardon, and paid a great ransom. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You are both rich, and can pay large ransoMs You scoundrel, you have been putting these brigand ideas into the old man's head. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Speak, Jew--have I not ransomed thee from Sathanas? 沃爾特·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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- On rising, another struck up a Methodist hymn, of which the burden was, The year of Jubilee is come,-- Return, ye ransomed sinners, home. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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