N-VAR 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.
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。
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。
The ransom demand was made by telephone. 赎金是通过电话索要的。
VERB 赎回;赎出 If you ransom someone who has been kidnapped, you pay the money to set them free.
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。
PHRASE 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.
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。
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。
A busload of schoolchildren were held ransom until the gang were given a plane. 直到给了绑匪们一架飞机,他们才将全车的学童们释放。
PHRASE 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.
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。
PHRASE 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.
...clients happy to pay a king's ransom for a haircut. 乐意为理发出高价的顾客
Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? 使海与深渊的水乾涸,使海的深处变为赎民经过之路的,不是你吗。
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 并且耶和华救赎的民必归回,歌唱来到锡安,永乐必归到他们的头上,他们必得着欢喜快乐,忧愁叹息尽都逃避。
Most of the pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia or in the Malacca Strait involve oil tankers that are ransomed. 索马里海岸线附近以及马六甲海峡的大多数海盗袭击都与劫持油轮、索要赎金有关。
Dear dying lamb, thy precious blood shall never lose its power, till all the ransomed Church of God be saved to sin no more. 珍贵的垂死羔羊,你的宝血永不失去功能足能救赎全体教会保守不再犯罪。
That thou might'st ransomed be, And quickened from the dead; 救你从死复起,使你罪过得赎。
They ransomed the kidnapped child with a great sum of money. 他们用巨款赎出遭绑架的孩子。
Her father ransomed her for a million dollars. 她父亲支付了一百万元把她赎了回来。
A month later Houtman was ransomed. 一个月以后,霍特曼被赎救出来。
His wife ransomed him at a heavy price. 他妻子花了大价钱才把他赎了出来。
It was as the Lamb slain in the midst of the throne that in that wonderful fifth chapter of Revelation He receives the worship of the ransomed and the angels and all creation. 启示录第五章写到一切万物,包括天使及被赎的选民,都围在宝座前敬拜赞美被杀的羔羊。
Look at the opportunity for service which you have and consider it a cup or a vessel and pour into it all your life, all your being, all your being's ransomed powers. 我们尝试把每个事奉机会视为一个器皿,我们便将我们生命中的一切,我们的整个人倾倒进去一样。