hostages的中文翻譯是什麼意思
hostages
n. 人質( hostage的名詞複數 )
hostages的柯林斯釋義
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。
hostages的場景例句
They expected a reciprocal gesture before more hostages could be freed.
在更多人質獲得自由之前他們期望看到對方也有相應的表示。
Any hostages in the firing line would have been sacrificed.
任何射擊線上的人質就都會成為犧牲品。
The people in your grasp are not guests, they are hostages.
你所控制的這些人不是客人，而是人質。
Britain is intensifying its efforts to secure the release of the hostages.
英國正加緊努力確保人質的獲釋。
Jesse Jackson was instrumental in the release of some of the hostages.
其中一些人質得以獲釋多虧了傑西·傑克遜。