ransom
ransom 英 [ˈrænsəm] 美 [ˈrænsəm]
vt. 赎回，赎；勒索赎金；救赎；得赎金后释放 n. 赎金；赎身，赎回
进行时:ransoming 过去式:ransomed 过去分词:ransomed 第三人称单数:ransoms 名词复数:ransoms
- If you’re ever kidnapped, you’d probably be worth millions in ransom. Ransom is the money demanded for the release of a captive.
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- vt. 赎回，赎；勒索赎金；救赎；得赎金后释放
- n. 赎金；赎身，赎回
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1. Should I ransom my freedom?
我应该赎回我的自由么？
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2. The police caught the man who tried to abduct the boy for ransom.
警察抓住了那个企图拐走这男孩以便勒索赎金的家伙。
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3. And we pray that You would continue to change us in the likeness of Your Son, who came not to be served but to serve, and who gives His life for the ransom of many.
我们祈求祢使我们的生命越来越有祢的爱子耶稣基督的样式，就是那位服事他人而非被人服事、就是那位付出自己的生命来赎回世人的主的样式。
- ransom early 14c., from ransom (n.). Related: Ransomed; ransoming.
- ransom (n.) c. 1200, "sum paid for the release of a prisoner or captured man," from Old French ranson (Modern French rançon), earlier raenson "ransom, redemption," from Latin redemptionem (nominative redemptio) "a redeeming," from redimere "to redeem, buy back," from red- "back" (see re-) + emere "to take, buy, gain, procure" (from PIE root *em- "to take, distribute").
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