hostage的中文翻譯是什麼意思

hostage

US/ˈhɑːstɪdʒ/
UK/ˈhɒstɪdʒ/

n. 人質; 抵押品

hostage柯林斯釋義

N-COUNT人質

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.

    有兩名人質可望在幾天後獲釋。

PHRASE被扣作人質

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.

    他第一次作為電視記者出國採訪時就被扣作人質。

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...

    隨著外資的減少,政府將更加受制於起伏不定的國際油價。

  • Wine growers say they've been held hostage to the interests of the cereal and soybean farmers.

    葡萄種植兼釀酒者說他們一直都為穀物和大豆種植者的利益所綁架。

hostage英文釋義

Noun

1. a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms

    hostage短語

    1. hold (或 take) someone hostage

      把某人持為人質

    2. a hostage to fortune

      招惹麻煩(或不明智、很難做到)的行為(或許諾、話語)擔風險

    hostage場景例句

    It is Nina, and she informs him that Victor is alive and holding Jack as hostage.

    電話的那端是尼娜, 她將維克多還在生而且將傑克劫為人質的資訊告訴了參議員.

    The company took the cars as hostage.

    公司把汽車當做抵押品.

    He is take hostage by the guerilla.

    游擊隊將他扣為人質.

    Just so I'm not hostage to baseball and day on all the sports networks.

    這樣我就不會整天在網上看到的都是棒球!

    We laugh at the angry people on internet when Chinese were caught as hostage.

    凡是中國人質被抓,就笑網路憤青.

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    hostage詞性變形

    hostages

    hostage近義詞

    captive