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hostage

[ˈhɒstɪdʒ] [ˈhɑstɪdʒ]
  • 复数:hostages;
  • 相关单词 hostages
    例句
    词组
    • hold (或 take) someone hostage
      seize and keep someone as a hostage 把某人持为人质
    • a hostage to fortune
      an act, commitment, or remark which is regarded as unwise because it invites trouble or could prove difficult to live up to 招惹麻烦(或不明智、很难做到)的行为(或许诺、话语)担风险
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    • N-COUNT
      人质
      A hostage is someone who has been captured by a person or organization and who may be killed or injured if people do not do what that person or organization demands.
      例句
      It is hopeful that two hostages will be freed in the next few days. 有两名人质可望在几天后获释。
    • PHRASE
      被扣作人质
      If someone is taken hostage or is held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage.
      例句
      He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist. 他第一次作为电视记者出国采访时就被扣作人质。
    • N-VAR
      受限制的人;不由自主的人
      If you say you are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control.
      例句
      With the reduction in foreign investments, the government will be even more a hostage to the whims of the international oil price... 随着外资的减少,政府将更加受制于起伏不定的国际油价。 Wine growers say they've been held hostage to the interests of the cereal and soybean farmers. 葡萄种植兼酿酒者说他们一直都为谷物和大豆种植者的利益所绑架。
    英汉词典释义
    • n.
      人质,抵押品
      He's managed to secure the release of the hostages. 他设法使人质获释。
    英英词典释义
    • Noun
      1. a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
    行业词典
    • 法律: 人质;抵押物;
      金融: 抵押品;