kidnap
意味
- 〈人〉を誘拐する
例文
That child may have been kidnapped on his way home.
その子は帰宅の途中で誘拐されたのかもしれない。
The prosecution condemned the defendant for kidnapping a child.
検察側は被告が子供を誘拐したと激しく非難した。
Mary was kidnapped by pirates.
メアリーは海賊に拉致された。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From kid + nap (“to nab; to grab”). Originally Thieves' cant, referring to the practice of stealing children and shipping them to colonies or plantations as laborers. First attested c. 1680.