hostage

英 [ˈhɒstɪdʒ]

美 [ˈhɑːstɪdʒ]

n.  人质

复数：hostages　

CET6考研IELTSTEM8经济

Collins.4 / BNC.5420 / COCA.3972

习惯用语

n.

a hostage to fortune
• 可能招惹麻烦（或担忧）的东西（或许诺）；造成后患的事物
  something that you have, or have promised to do, that could cause trouble or worry in the future

牛津词典

noun

• 人质
  a person who is captured and held prisoner by a person or group, and who may be injured or killed if people do not do what the person or group is asking
  1. Three children were taken hostage during the bank robbery.
     在银行抢劫案中有三名儿童被扣为人质。
  2. He was held hostage for almost a year.
     他被扣为人质几近一年。
  3. The government is negotiating the release of the hostages.
     政府正就释放人质进行谈判。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 人质
  Ahostageis 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.
  1. 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 someoneis taken hostageoris held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage.
  1. 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 arehostage tosomething, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

英英释义

noun

• a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
  Synonym:surety

双语例句

• 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。
• You think she was held hostage?
  你认为她被作为人质了？
• They were wrong. he's been held in hostage.
  他们错了。他被当作人质关押了。
• The class was held hostage by a hooded gunman.
  全班同学被一个蒙面的持枪歹徒劫为人质。
• The reporting of the hostage story was fair, if sometimes overblown.
  尽管这篇关于人质的报道有些夸大其词，但还算公正。
• 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。
• One group claimed to have executed the American hostage
  一个组织声称已经处决了那名美国人质。
• Police shot and killed Jackson, freeing the hostage without injury.
  警察开枪击毙了杰克逊，安全的解救了人质。
• But the hostage's life was saved.
  但是保住了人质的生命。
• The hostage release could clear the decks for war.
  人质的获释可能会为发动战争扫清障碍。