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hostage

🇬🇧/ˈhɒstɪdʒ/ 🇺🇸/ˈhɑːstɪdʒ/
VCE 📚 4003 4 六级 考研 雅思
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. 人质

noun [专属名词] 人质

If you say you are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control. 受到…的限制

hostage 出现在下面的课文中(提供视频、音频及笔记等可系统性学习)
Lesson 48 Planning a share portfolio
host(主人) + age → 不情愿的客人 → 人质
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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。
Wine growers say they've been held hostage to the interests of cereal farmers. 葡萄酒制造商们说他们已被谷物种植者的利益所左右。
It is hopeful that two hostages will be freed in the next few days. 两名人质有望在几天后获释。
Somebody is holding your wife hostage. 有人在扣留你的妻子当人质。