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N-VAR
贖價；贖金
A ransom is the money that has to be paid to someone so that they will set free a person they have kidnapped.
例句
Her kidnapper successfully extorted a ￡75,000 ransom for her release...
綁匪成功地勒索了7.5萬英鎊才將她釋放。
The president has said the United States will never pay ransom for the hostages...
總統稱美國永遠不會為這些人質支付贖金。
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VERB
贖回；贖出
If you ransom someone who has been kidnapped, you pay the money to set them free.
例句
The same system was used for ransoming or exchanging captives.
相同的制度還應用于贖回或交換俘虜。
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PHRASE
劫持（某人）勒索金錢;綁票;綁架
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.
例句
He is charged with kidnapping a businessman last year and holding him for ransom...
他被控于去年綁架了一名商人并勒索錢財。
In Rio, nearly forty people have been held to ransom this year alone...
在里約熱內盧，僅今年一年就有近40人被綁票。
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PHRASE
威脅;脅迫
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.
例句
Unison and the other unions have the power to hold the Government to ransom.
公務員工會和其他工會有能力脅迫政府。
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PHRASE
一大筆錢;巨款
If you refer to a sum of money as a king's ransom, you are emphasizing that it is very large.
例句
...clients happy to pay a king's ransom for a haircut.
樂意為理發出高價的顧客