| 单词 | hostage |
| 释义 | hostagehos·tage /ˈhɒstɪdʒ $ ˈhɑː-/ ●○○ noun [countableC] 1 KEEP somebody IN A PLACEsomeone who is kept as a prisoner by an enemy so that the other side will do what the enemy demands 人质 → kidnap The group are holding two tourists hostage (=keeping them as hostages). 这伙人挟持了两名游客作为人质。 a family taken hostage at gunpoint 在枪口下被劫为人质的一家人 2 be (a) hostage to something to be influenced and controlled by something, so that you are not free to do what you want 受制于某事 Our country must not be held hostage to our past. 我们的国家决不要被过去所束缚。 Examples from the Corpus be (a) hostage to something• But this development of local state institutions can be a hostage to fortune.• Making objectives explicit is a hostage to fortune and the failure to do so may reflect a shrewd awareness. 2.• Now, more than ever, the president will be a hostage to his own ethnic minority, the Zaghawa.• You were hostage to your producers. 3. a hostage to fortune RISKsomething that you have promised to do that may cause you problems in the future 可能招致后患的承诺 Examples from the Corpus a hostage to fortune• Senior Tories who dismissed the tax guarantee as a hostage to fortune will feel vindicated by Mr Hague's backdown.• But this development of local state institutions can be a hostage to fortune.• Making objectives explicit is a hostage to fortune and the failure to do so may reflect a shrewd awareness. 2. Examples from the Corpus hostage• The government radio said 32 hostages had been released by 11 a. m., but that could not be confirmed.• An attempt to rescue the American hostages ended in disaster when a helicopter crashed.• When in residence, their occupants were under surveillance; when absent, they left their families as hostages.• We must exchange hostage for hostage.• They may then have been required to give hostages as a guarantee of future good behaviour.• A British journalist was held hostage for over four years.• For a politician to have a clear objective is to offer hostages to his opponents.• The medical team were captured and taken hostage.• Later, Cyrus and Poe must stop Johnny from raping a female prison official whom the prisoners have taken hostage.• The group has threatened to kill the hostages unless the government frees 15 political prisoners.• The terrorists say that they will kill the hostages if we don't agree to their demands. holding ... hostage• Paris children held hostage An masked man armed with a revolver is holding twenty-five children hostage in a nursery school in Paris.• Don Nickles, R-Okla. who is holding the bill hostage because Sen.• One is the extent of her familiarity with Nestor Cerpa Cartolini, the leader of the rebels holding the hostages.• She smiled, holding me hostage with her piercing eyes.• He then called 911 to tell police he was holding the hostages. (1200-1300) Old French hoste; → HOST1 |
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