kidnappings是什么意思？

kidnappings

绑架案

例句

• The mass kidnappings are the latest in a wave across Iraq. 伊拉克近来出现大规模的绑架行动.
• The region has kidnappings targeting foreign firms in the past two years. 过去两年来,这个地区曾发生多起针对外国公司的绑架案.
• There have been scores of kidnappings by political extremists in the past year. 去年就有政治上极端分子所作的很多起绑架案.
• I opened handwritten , eye - witness accounts of summary trials and executions , of kidnappings and rapes. 我看过拷问受害者的证词和被害的照片.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  劫持；绑架
  To kidnap someone is to take them away illegally and by force, and usually to hold them prisoner in order to demand something from their family, employer, or government.
  例句
  Police in Brazil uncovered a plot to kidnap him... 巴西警方发现了有人要绑架他的阴谋。 They were intelligent and educated, yet they chose to kidnap and kill... 他们聪明且有教养，却选择去绑架和杀人。
• N-VAR
  绑架罪
  Kidnap or a kidnap is the crime of taking someone away by force.
  例句
  Stewart denies attempted murder and kidnap... 斯图尔特否认对其谋杀未遂和绑架的指控。 He was charged with the kidnap of a 25 year-old woman. 他被指控绑架一名25岁的女子。