| 词汇 | ransoming |
| 释义 | ransoming present participle ofransom ransom verb[ T ] uk /ˈræn.səm/ us /ˈræn.səm/ to pay money in order to set someone free: （付钱）赎（人），赎出，赎回 ransom someone for somethingHer father ransomed her for a million dollars.她父亲用100万美元把她赎了出来。 Paying money 2FA 2SV ante up (something) burn a hole in someone's pocketidiom buying power credit limit fund non-contributory outlay overpaid put someone through something put something on your/someone's card put something towards something run to something self-finance spend spent splurge sponsor tipper Examples of ransomingransoming In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. These soldiers were preferred, as there would be an opportunity of ransoming them when taken prisoners at a lower price. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The fox then warned the boy against ransoming anyone with the money. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It was claimed that most were dressed much the same as common soldiers and therefore were not recognised as being worth ransoming. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. But the ransoming had finally gone too far. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They also did a brisk business in ransoming some of the captives. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Sometime later, she acts as the captain of a pirate ship, doing everything from raiding other ships to ransoming hostages. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He devoted himself to fighting paganism, ransoming captives and visiting rural districts. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The practice of ransoming had long been customary in medieval wars and there was no reason to forgo its pecuniary advantages in this conflict. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. While performing these missions, he makes moves to take sole possession of the illicit ransoming funds, but is eliminated. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Apart from being conspicuously virtuous, he showed a practical turn in building aqueducts and ransoming captives, as well as building new churches and restoring monasteries. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. What we did learn is this it's a hostage that's worth ransoming. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The incident illustrates the importance of ransoming noble captives, as a means of political manipulation, increasing one's own revenues and exhausting the resources of one's foes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Finally, in this context a form of more regular re-recruitment should be mentioned that in practice had some quantitative importance: the ransoming of prisoners of war. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Shaler took out $75,000 in specie and then divested the packet after ransoming her for $8000. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Then violence erupts and suddenly the whole ship is endangered by a master criminal whose intention is not a simple hijacking and ransoming of the wealthy hostages on board. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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