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

• Jesse Jackson was instrumental in the release of some of the hostages.
  其中一些人质得以获释多亏了杰西·杰克逊。
• His release turned out to follow the pattern set by that of the other six hostages.
  最终他的获释方式也和其他6名人质的获释如出一辙。
• The guerrillas threatened to kill their hostages.
  这些游击队员威胁要杀死人质。
• The suspense over the two remaining hostages ended last night when the police discovered the bullet ridden bodies.
  随着昨晚警方发现了弹痕累累的尸体，人们对剩余两名人质的担心也终告结束。
• The gunmen took three hostages.
  持枪歹徒扣押了三名人质。
• He still claims the arms weren't traded for hostages
  他仍然声称军火没有被用来交换人质。
• Their efforts helped the hostages gain their freedom.
  他们的努力帮助人质获得了自由。
• The hostages cannot go home just yet
  人质目前还不能回家。
• 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。
• 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。