king's ransom
英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
源自被绑架的王需要大笔赎金才能救回的说法。
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（澳洲）音频 （文档）
名词[编辑]
king's ransom (复数 king's ransoms 或 kings' ransoms)
- (俗语) 很大一笔钱
- 1825, Sir Walter Scott, 章号 12, 出自 The Talisman:
- "But to yonder pavilion . . . the moon is glimmering on the gilded ball which crowns its roof, and which is worth a king's ransom."
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- 1967 March 10, Archeology: An Ill-Starred Treasure Comes into Its Own (pictorial), LIFE, page 101:
- These gold, silver and pewter pieces are part of a king’s ransom of Spanish treasure salvaged from the sea off Florida where they had lain for 250 years.
- 1986 March 24, Bernice Kanner, The Real James Bond: Jim Lebenthal’s Tax-Bill Crusade, New York, page 46:
- “ […] This commercial message is sponsored by Lebenthal in the heartfelt belief that we’re not the only ones who are going to miss the bonds when they’re gone and it costs a king’s ransom to turn on the lights, boil water, or haul the garbage.”
- 2005, Michael R. Matthews, Colin F. Gauld, Arthur Stinner, The Pendulum: Its Place in Science, Culture and Pedagogy, Michael R. Matthews, Colin F. Gauld, Arthur Stinner (editors), The Pendulum: Scientific, Historical, Philosophical and Educational Perspectives, page 7:
- Solving longitude was one of the major preoccupations of European nations from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. King’s ransoms were offered for its solution.
- 2010, Jane Feather, Rushed to the Altar, Pocket Books, 出版于 2010, →ISBN，页号 386:
- Except that Clarissa Astley would not have been decked out in a king's ransom of diamonds.
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近义词[编辑]
延伸阅读[编辑]
- “king's ransom” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “a king's ransom”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “a kings ransom” in the Collins English Dictionary
- “a king s ransom” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “a king s ransom” (US) / “a king s ransom” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.