I'm sorry we'll lose the ransom, but it was either that or Bill Driscoll to the madhouse.

比尔接着说，“很遗憾我们没有了赎金，但是如果不这样，我比尔·德利·斯科尔会被送进疯人院的。”

youdao

Bill begged me tearfully to make the ransom fifteen hundred dollars instead of two thousand.

比尔眼泪汪汪地恳请我将赎金从2000美元减到1500美元。

youdao

Bill and I thought that Ebenezer would pay a ransom of two thousand dollars to get his boy back.

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