| 释义 |
ˈblood-ˌmoney
[f. as prec. + money.]
Money paid as the price of blood: a. A reward for bringing about the death of another; money paid to a witness who gives evidence leading to the conviction of a person upon a capital charge. b. Money paid to the next of kin as compensation for the slaughter of a relative.
1535Coverdale Matt. xxvii. 6 It is not laufull to put them in to the Gods chest for it is bloudmoney. 1818Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 228 Spies and blood-money bands. 1862H. Marryat Year in Sweden I. 160 [She] received a thousand marks of pure silver as blood-money for the massacre of her husband and her two sons. 1862R. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 186 The village benefited by the blood-money that was brought home; the Zemindar, or headman, was paid a tribute or hush-money. 1862M. E. Rogers Dom. Life Palestine 295 He was..condemned to pay a certain sum, as ‘blood-money,’ to the heirs of the deceased. |