king's ransom
英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
源自被綁架的王需要大筆贖金才能救回的說法。
發音[編輯]
（澳洲）音頻 （文檔）
名詞[編輯]
king's ransom (複數 king's ransoms 或 kings' ransoms)
- (俗語) 很大一筆錢
- 1825, Sir Walter Scott, 章號 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, 出版於 2010, →ISBN，頁號 386:
- Except that Clarissa Astley would not have been decked out in a king's ransom of diamonds.
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
近義詞[編輯]
延伸閱讀[編輯]
- 「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.