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hostage

🇬🇧/ˈhɒstɪdʒ/ 🇺🇸/ˈhɑːstɪdʒ/VCE📚 4012 282 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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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。
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。
Somebody is holding your wife hostage. 有人在扣留你的妻子当人质。