英 [ˈhɒstɪdʒ] 美 [ˈhɑːstɪdʒ]
n. 人质
复数hostages
hostage /ˈhɒstɪdʒ/ CET6 TEM4
可数名词 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. 人质
It is hopeful that two hostages will be freed in the next few days.
两名人质有望在几天后获释。
习语 If someone is taken hostage or is held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage. 将某人扣作人质
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。
有变体名词 If you say you are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control. 受到…的限制
Wine growers say they've been held hostage to the interests of cereal farmers.
葡萄酒制造商们说他们已被谷物种植者的利益所左右。
a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
同义词: surety
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Hostage is the pledge property that one party wins the trust of the other party to resolve the bilateral relations during the Zhou Dynasties, a special group among feudal lords and internal communications.
人质是两周时期为解决双边关系一方取信对方所出的质押物,是诸侯国之间交往乃至诸侯国内部一个较为特殊的群体。
参考来源两周人质问题研究(研究生论文)
这伙绑匪卓殊狡黠,从逃脱人质到被抓共搬动了4个地方(Local),并且改变时将人质(Hostage)藏在一个地方(Local),领前将车开到另一个地方,要挟人质时代还威胁、系缚、殴打人质。
《 火线对峙 》( Hostage ): 亲情永远是人类最大的优点,也是最为明显的弱点。当亲情与职责冲突的时候,我们往往会选择亲情。
... stationary adj. 不动的; 静止的,固定的;不可移动的 hostage n. 人质,抵押品 gang n. (罪犯有组织的)一帮, 一伙 ...
终极人质(Hostage) 主演: 布鲁斯威利, 凯文波拉克, 班佛斯特, 乔纳森塔克, 赛连娜史考特汤玛斯
Somebody is holding your wife hostage.
有人在扣留你的妻子当人质。
The group had shot dead another hostage.
这伙人又打死了一名人质。
One group claimed to have executed the hostage.
一个组织声称他们已处死了那名人质。
A group of small states on the coast of North Africa was seizing American ships and holding their crews hostage.
VOA : special.2009.05.27
Their goal: hijack the ship and hold the crew hostage until the ship's owners paid for their release.
VOA : special.2009.05.27
Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse was flown from Africa to New York City, where he was charged Tuesday with five crimes, including piracy and hostage-taking.
VOA : special.2009.04.25
American hostage Jill Carroll has been freed in Baghdad after being held for nearly three months.
"He took a hostage, held her for close to an hour or more, " Mr Aharonovitch said.
It suffers from an entitlement and group-rights problem, to which the individual immigrant plays sorry hostage.