hostage的中文翻译是什么意思
hostage
n. 人质; 抵押品
hostage的柯林斯释义
N-COUNT人质
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.
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 someone is taken hostage or is held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage.
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 are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control.
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。
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。
hostage的英文释义
Noun
1. a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
hostage的短语
hold (或 take) someone hostage
把某人持为人质
a hostage to fortune
招惹麻烦（或不明智、很难做到）的行为（或许诺、话语）担风险
hostage的场景例句
It is Nina, and she informs him that Victor is alive and holding Jack as hostage.
电话的那端是尼娜, 她将维克多还在生而且将杰克劫为人质的信息告诉了参议员.
The company took the cars as hostage.
公司把汽车当做抵押品.
He is take hostage by the guerilla.
游击队将他扣为人质.
Just so I'm not hostage to baseball and day on all the sports networks.
这样我就不会整天在网上看到的都是棒球!
We laugh at the angry people on internet when Chinese were caught as hostage.
凡是中国人质被抓,就笑网络愤青.