The idea is that such reporting would help identify those responsible and even help get back some of the ransom money.
想法是这样报告将有助于确定责任人,甚至有助于追回部分赎金。
2010 English Cafe
They went into his home;they found some of the ransom money there.
他们进入他的家;他们在那里发现了一些赎金。
破产姐妹 第3季
But he showed up with the ransom money, and you don't see me living in a fridge anymore.
但他带着收到的赎金来了,从此我也摆脱住冰箱的生活。
2005 ESLPod
Bill said that both he and his wife were kidnapped, but that the kidnappers let him go so he could get the ransom money for his wife.
比尔说他和他的妻子都被绑架了,但是绑架者放了他, 这样他就可以为他的妻子拿到赎金。
BBC 听力 2013年2月合集
A former American ambassador to Mali has said that France paid ransom money to free hostages which ended up funding the Islamist group that’s now fighting in Mali.
一位前美国驻马里大使表示, 法国为解救人质支付了赎金, 最终资助了目前在马里作战的伊斯兰组织。
莎士比亚故事集
When they were become a little calm, Antipholus of Ephesus offered the duke the ransom money for his father's life;but the duke freely pardoned Ageon, and would not take the money.
Ransom is the practice of holding a prisoner or item to extort money or property to secure their release, or it may refer to the sum of money involved.
In an early German law, a similar concept was called weregild.
When ransom means "payment", the word comes via Old French rançon from Latin redemptio = "buying back": compare "redemption".