hostage
美 [ˈhɑstɪdʒ] 
英 [ˈhɒstɪdʒ]
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复数：hostages 同义词
英汉双解
1. | 人质a person who is captured and held prisoner by a person or group, and who may be injured or killed if people do not do what the person or group is asking |
| Three children were taken hostage during the bank robbery. 在银行抢劫案中有三名儿童被扣为人质。 |
| He was held hostage for almost a year. 他被扣为人质几近一年。 |
| The government is negotiating the release of the hostages. 政府正就释放人质进行谈判。 |
习惯用语
a hostage to fortune
可能招惹麻烦（或担忧）的东西（或许诺）；造成后患的事物something that you have, or have promised to do, that could cause trouble or worry in the future
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例句
He said the hostage-taker had wanted to kill himself in the classroom.
查特尔说，劫持者本想在教室里自杀。
Staying on might have turned him into a hostage to those seeking to protect their financial interests.
普京继续任职可能会致使那些想方设法保护自己经济利益的人把他掳为一名人质。
The old man to do so is to let the hero was not airport officials hostage, can freely into New York.
老人这么做是为了让主人公不被机场官员要挟，能毫无顾忌的进入纽约。
Police marched from the Trident hotel in Mumbai, scene of a hostage drama a year ago, and abseiled down prominent buildings.
一年前在三叉戟酒店（Tridenthotel）上演了扣押人质的戏剧性一幕，警方游行正是从那里开始，一路向下经过主要的建筑物。
A worried easterner describes the alliance as "like an 18th-century Polish parliament, hostage to its most irresponsible member" .
忧心忡忡的东欧人将北约形容为“18世纪的波兰议会，任由其大多不负责任的成员操作”。
A decapitated body wearing an orange jumpsuit was found in the Tigris River Thursday, possibly that of a foreigner taken hostage.
周四，伊拉克警察在底格里斯河里发现一名穿着桔红色衣服的无头尸体，估计该尸体是被斩首的外国人质。
Question: If someone with multiple personalities tries to commit suicide, do the police consider it a hostage situation?
问题：如果一个具有多重性格的人想要自杀，警察是否会认为发生人质劫持情况？
Reported that this was the first killing of American hostage by Somali pirates.
报道称，这是索马里海盗首次杀害美国人质。
He said the hostage-taker was killed with a sniper shot to the head after he wounded a police sharpshooter.
他说，劫持人质者在打伤一名警方神枪手后被一名狙击兵射中脑门而击毙。
Two people are believed to have been killed and there were still reports last night of up to 10 Israelis being held hostage in the city.
已有两人确定在袭击中身亡。据报道，到昨晚孟买市中仍有多至十名的犹太人被扣为人质。
The hostage-taking was "such an outrageous act against the United States" that it pulled Americans together, he said.
他说，劫持人质是“针对美国的残暴行为”，因此把美国人凝聚在一起。
He said a police special action force trained for hostage rescue had not been deployed as promised.
他说，政府曾承诺调用专业人质救援特警，但并未调用。
When a couple is taken hostage in their home by an intruder, a simple home invasion robbery turns into something much more complicated.
当一对夫妇被一个侵入者劫为人质时，一桩简单的入室抢劫变得复杂。
So bin Laden's group became just as much a hostage to its leader's flawed strategic vision as the Nazis were to Hitler's.
因此本拉登的小组成为了他有缺陷的战略眼光的牺牲品，就像曾经纳粹成员对于希特勒那样。
None of the tourists were taken hostage, but the ship was seized along with its seven-member crew.
没有任何游客被绑架，但是游轮和7名船员被扣押。
Chinese police have shot and killed a bus hijacker in northwest China after he took a group of Australian tourists hostage.
中国警方开枪打死一名在中国西北地区劫持一组澳大利亚游客为人质的客车劫持者。
If it had, then it would not, for instance, have remained a hostage to the weather.
如果有的话，比如，它就不会将人质（宇航员）留在太空之中。
Almost everyone involved in trying to resolve Britain's longest running hostage crisis for a generation is in shock.
几乎所有被卷入英国一代以来历时最长的人质绑架事件的人都被震惊了。
Mr. Obama could and should be hammering Republicans for trying to hold the middle class hostage to secure tax cuts for the wealthy.
奥巴马先生可以也应该强烈斥责共和党将中产阶级作为人质实现对富人的减税。
"So we are to travel far away to a ship where people might be held hostage, " Anakin said shrewdly. "It sure sounds like a mission to me. "
“那么我们要经过遥远的旅途，去一艘可能上面的人被扣为人质的大飞船，”安纳金敏锐地说，“对我来说，听起来确实是个任务。”
And without credibility, Iran -- like any country -- would not be able to hold another country hostage.
伊朗像其他国家一样不可能会劫持另一个国家，这一点更没可信度。
Usually when I'm overseas, somebody kills a judge and something happens like the hostage reads my book and turns himself in.
我一出国，就会有人杀了法官，然后有个人质读了我的书，凶手就去自首了。
When a reckless bank robber and his rebellious teenage hostage hole up for the night in a bad motel, anything can happen.
一个没经验的银行抢匪和一个被掳做人质的叛逆少女在一个破旧汽车旅馆内过夜，任何事情都能发生。
This episode is a wake-up call to any company perceived to be hostage to one person alone. Even if it is true.
对于那些在人们眼里完全依托于一个人——即使这是真实情况——的公司来说，这件事不啻一记警钟。
Well, concerns about the tax deal reflect realism, not purism: Mr. Obama is setting up another hostage situation a year down the road.
好吧，由于对税政折射出的现实主义，而非纯粹主义的介怀，奥巴马正设好一种一年后被绑架的状况。
and in selecting foreigners as targets: hostage-takers seem to have sought out American, British and Israeli victims.
第二，将外国人锁定为袭击目标，绑匪似乎在刻意挑选美国人、英国人和以色列人。
It said that, since the beginning of April, five attacks had been confirmed, three vessels hijacked and about 74 crew taken hostage.
海事局称，自4月以来已确认有五起袭击事件，三艘船只被劫持，大约74名船员被劫为人质。
Since the guy who held me hostage turned out to be your son, i think logic dictates that i should move on. The problem is.
拿我当人质的居然是你儿子正常情况下，我不该再回头了但问题是。
The gangster had the hostage eating out of his hand to help him escape.
歹徒让人质完全服从自己的命令帮他逃走。与
At least 10 companies over the past two months have had managers held hostage, while many more have had factories occupied.
过去两个月内，至少有10家公司的管理人员被扣为人质，还有更多公司的工厂遭到了占领。
The Empress said that her mind was made up the moment the Prince was sent away as hostage. The Emperor is fickle and suspicious.
殷隼：皇后说，其实从太子被逼当人质的那一刻起，她就已经下了决心。
As with a hostage video, the eerie, amateurish quality of the production lent authenticity to Rosenberg's claim: he had been rubbed out.
类似于人质录像，阴森恐怖的业余制作水准让罗森博格的声明更具真实感：他是被谋杀了。
An old man opened the door, ask him why so knock energetically, this hostage asks: "Who lives upstair ? "
一个老头开了门，问他为什么这么大力敲门，这人质问道：“谁住在二楼？”
Limbert said the lasting effects of the hostage crisis have been most severe in Iran.
利伯特说，人质危机在伊朗的长期影响最为严重。
Reports of the arms wielded by the hostage-taker varied, but Mr. Chatel said he carried two long knives.
关于劫持者使用的凶器各方报道不一，但法国教育部长查特尔说他拿的是两把长刀。
Plainly, fighting terrorism or hostage-taking in the Sahel is a different sort of intervention.
很显然，在萨赫勒地区打击恐怖主义和绑匪是一种不同的干涉。
At least the banks would not be holding the whole country hostage.
直译：“至少，银行就不能胁持整个国家作为人质了”
Across the globe, in Brooklyn, N. Y. , some Hasidic Jews used Twitter to track the fate of a rabbi held hostage in the building.
在全球范围内，在纽约布鲁克林，一些哈西德派犹太人使用Twitter跟踪被围困在建筑物里面的人的命运。
Hostage to the needs of his own flesh, he nevertheless disobeys his body's command and keeps faith with his heart.
尽管自己身体已经开始欲动，他还是选择了忠于本心而抵制欲望的需求。
Another checked the bus tires police shot out to prevent the hostage-taker from moving out of a police cordon.
另一组则检查了被警方击中的大巴轮胎，警方当时这么做是为了防止劫犯逃离封锁区。
