human shield

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ˌhuman ˈshield noun [countableC]

someone who is taken and kept as a prisoner by a criminal in order to protect the criminal from being killed, injured, or caught 人体盾牌，人质

Examples from the Corpus

human shield• Denis says they're using the children as a human shield.• There was even some laughter when one of the thieves picked up a little girl to use as a human shield.

单词	human shield
释义	human shield Word family adjectivehumanehumanistichumanlikehumanoidhumanadverbhumanelyhumanlynounhumanenesshumanismhumanisthumanizationhumankindhumannesshuman naturehuman resourceshuman shieldverbhumanize ˌhuman ˈshield noun [countableC] someone who is taken and kept as a prisoner by a criminal in order to protect the criminal from being killed, injured, or caught 人体盾牌，人质 Examples from the Corpus human shield• Denis says they're using the children as a human shield.• There was even some laughter when one of the thieves picked up a little girl to use as a human shield.
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