hostages

英 [ˈhɒstɪdʒɪz]

美 [ˈhɑstədʒəz]

n.  人质
hostage的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 人质
  Ahostageis 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.
  1. 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 someoneis taken hostageoris held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage.
  1. 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 arehostage tosomething, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• He would concern himself solely with the plight of the hostages.
  他唯一关心的是人质的危险处境。
• The terrorists will only release their hostages on certain conditions.
  恐怖分子只有在某些条件下才肯释放人质。
• All these hostages took a solemn oath on the gospels.
  这些人质都手按着福音书立下了庄重的誓言。
• They expected a reciprocal gesture before more hostages could be freed
  在更多人质获得自由之前他们期望看到对方也有相应的表示。
• We obviously want to see the hostages home, but not at any price.
  我们显然也希望看到人质回家，但并不是不惜任何代价。
• Their efforts helped the hostages gain their freedom.
  他们的努力帮助人质获得了自由。
• The people in your grasp are not guests, they are hostages
  你所控制的这些人不是客人，而是人质。
• The gunmen took three hostages.
  持枪歹徒扣押了三名人质。
• The hostages were freed in the commando raid.
  在突击队的突袭行动中，人质获释。
• He argued that the release of hostages should not occasion a change in policy.
  他认为释放人质不应造成政策的改变。