n.赎金;赎身;赎回
vt.赎回
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。
They have to pay a large ransom. 他们不得不付一大笔赎金。
They held the travellers for ransom. 他们将旅客当作人质索取赎金。
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东的西。
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。
用作及物动词 (vt.)They ransomed the kidnapped child with 10,000 dollars. 他们用一万元赎回了被绑架的孩子。