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.

→ be (a) hostage to something at hostage(1)

单词	be (a) hostage to something
释义	be (a) hostage to something 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. → be (a) hostage to something at hostage(1)
随便看	cometic come to come to a grinding halt come-to-a-grinding-halt come to a head come to a pretty pass come to a pretty/sorry pass come to a sorry pass come to a sticky end come to a stop come to blows come to blows with come to blows with sb come to blows with somebody come to blows (with somebody) come to do come to do something come to do sth come to grief come to grips with come to grips with something come to grips with sth come to hand come to heel come to life