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

• Prisoners armed with baseball bats used the hostages to hold police at bay.
  手持棒球棒的囚犯们挟持了人质，使警察无法靠近。
• The hostages cannot go home just yet
  人质目前还不能回家。
• 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。
• The gunmen took three hostages.
  持枪歹徒扣押了三名人质。
• The hostages cowered in their seats.
  人质们蜷缩在座位上。
• 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 hostages were freed in the commando raid.
  在突击队的突袭行动中，人质获释。
• 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。
• Any hostages in the firing line would have been sacrificed
  任何射击线上的人质就都会成为牺牲品。
• Their efforts helped the hostages gain their freedom.
  他们的努力帮助人质获得了自由。