Ransom

(noun.) the act of freeing from captivity or punishment.

(noun.) payment for the release of someone.

(noun.) money demanded for the return of a captured person.

(verb.) exchange or buy back for money; under threat.

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• The ransom must be paid by love and beauty, and in no other coin will I accept it. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Let us put the Jew to ransom, since the leopard will not change his spots, and a Jew he will continue to be. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I also detached a brigade under Ransom to Natchez, to garrison that place permanently. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I pray thee be more conformable in this matter of my ransom. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Call them pro-Germans, international financiers, or profiteers, and they will give you any ransom you choose to ask not to speak of them so harshly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The emperor sued for pardon, and paid a great ransom. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You are both rich, and can pay large ransoMs You scoundrel, you have been putting these brigand ideas into the old man's head. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Speak, Jew--have I not ransomed thee from Sathanas? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• This provoked the Seventh Crusade, the Crusade of St. Louis, King of France (Louis IX), who was taken prisoner in Egypt and ransomed in 1250. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• On rising, another struck up a Methodist hymn, of which the burden was, The year of Jubilee is come,-- Return, ye ransomed sinners, home. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.

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