hostage 详细解释

hostage

['hɔstidʒ]

n. 人质

n.

人质; 抵押品[C]

The hijackers held 30 hostages.

劫机者扣押了三十人作人质。

词形变化

形容词: hostly | 动词过去式: hosted | 动词过去分词: hosted | 动词现在分词: hosting | 动词第三人称单数: hosts |

词义辨析

同义参见:

captive  

英英释义

名词 hostage:

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

同义词:surety

补充

hostagehostage英:[ˈhɔstidʒ] 美:[ˈhɑstɪdʒ]n.1.人质He's managed to secure the release of the hostages.他设法使人质获释。

例句

1. It is hopeful that two hostages will be freed in the next few days.两名人质有望于接下来的几天获释。 2. He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.他作为电视记者第一次到国外采访, 便被扣作人质。 3. The government will be a hostage to the whims of the international oil price.政府将因国际油价波动而受掣肘。 4. Wine growers say they've been held hostage to the interests of the cereal and soybean farmers.酿酒商称自己受制于种植谷物或大豆的农民的利益。 5. That amendment was clearly a hostage to fortune for taxpayers.那项修正案对于纳税人来说, 是随时都会失去约束性的。 6. On one matter dear to the electorate's heart, all three parties are mute. None will give any hostage to fortune on taxation.在选民都十分关心的一件事上, 三个政党都保持沉默, 都不愿在税收问题上担风险。 7. a hostage crisis人质危机 8. a hostage rescue人质营救 9. making objectives explicit is to give a hostage to fortune.使目的明确就要承担风险。 10. The terrorists demanded a plane and a pilot in exchange for the hostages.恐怖分子索要一架飞机和一名飞行员以交换人质。 11. The hostage crisis is now entering its second week.此次人质危机现在已是第二周了。 12. The passengers were taken hostage.那些乘客被劫持为人质。 13. They were held hostage for several days.他们被扣为人质已有几日。 14. a neighborhood being held hostage to fear [=a neighborhood controlled or dominated by fear]充斥着恐惧的街区