ransom 的 2 个定义
- the redemption of a prisoner or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- the sum or price paid or demanded.
- a means of deliverance or rescue from punishment for sin, especially the payment of a redemptive fine.
- to redeem from captivity, bondage, detention, etc., by paying a demanded price.
- to release or restore on receipt of a ransom.
- to deliver or redeem from punishment for sin.
ransom 近义词
blackmail money paid for return of possession or person
pay blackmail money for return of possession or person
更多ransom例句
- The Magic didn’t exactly net a king’s ransom when they traded away four veterans — Nikola Vucevic, Aaron Gordon, Evan Fournier and Al-Farouq Aminu — in three deals Thursday, but their sell-off was a long time coming.
- Some do it for fun, while others seek to hijack systems, blackmail targets or win a lucrative ransom.
- A better analogy for today’s algorithmically driven platform would be one of those ransom notes from the movies, where the kidnapper cuts out magazine letters to spell words.
- A Gulf State had promised to pay a huge ransom—Padnos says he was told 11 million Euros—in exchange for the American, and Abu Maria planned to be there.
- The leaguewide quarterback movement began last month when the Detroit Lions agreed to trade Matthew Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams for fellow quarterback Jared Goff and a king’s ransom of draft choices.
- “I noticed something,” I say to Marvin, feeling a little like Ransom Stoddard, attorney at law.
- At the same time, we should expect a rise in kidnapping for ransom.
- FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said that the bureau fully complies with U.S. policy as it relates to ransom payments.
- European governments, for their part, have long agreed to pay groups like ISIS ransom money.
- Where do you think the ransom money for Western hostages is going?
- For ten years now had these been riding and raiding around the walls, pillaging and holding to ransom.
- The second were ruffians who forced their victims to pay ransom by holding their feet in fires.
- The Abbot Guilbert offers three hundred silver sous for his ransom.
- He quickly pointed out Bezenecq the Rich as a townsman from whom it would be easy to extract a big ransom.
- Have I not offered you three hundred gold sous for my ransom, Count of Plouernel?