hostage

noun

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
   1. 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。
   2. He was held hostage for almost a year.
      他被扣为人质几近一年。
   3. The government is negotiating the release of the hostages.
      政府正就释放人质进行谈判。

1. N-COUNT 人质
   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.
   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。
2. PHRASE 被扣作人质
   If someone is taken hostage or is 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。
3. N-VAR 受限制的人;不由自主的人
   If you say you are hostage to something, 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。

1. He rebuked the President for trying to make political capital out of the hostage situation.
   他谴责总统试图利用人质事件捞取政治利益。
2. There are conflicting reports about the identity of the hostage.
   有关人质身份的报道相互矛盾。
3. He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis
   他对人质危机的冷静处理一时让批评者们惊讶不已。
4. The former hostage is in remarkably good shape considering his ordeal.
   想想人质曾遭受的折磨，获救后其身体状况已经是出奇地好了。
5. The group had shot dead another hostage.
   该组织又开枪打死了一名人质。
6. The hostage release could clear the decks for war.
   人质的获释可能会为发动战争扫清障碍。
7. There was none of the drama and relief of a hostage release
   丝毫没有释放人质时的那种激动和如释重负的感觉。
8. The embattled president also denied recent claims that he was being held hostage by his own soldiers.
   焦头烂额的总统还否认了最近有关他被自己的士兵挟持为人质的说法。
9. One group claimed to have executed the American hostage
   一个组织声称已经处决了那名美国人质。
10. Somebody is holding your wife hostage
    有人挟持了你妻子作为人质。
11. The class was held hostage by a hooded gunman.
    全班同学被一个蒙面的持枪歹徒劫为人质。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. The reporting of the hostage story was fair, if sometimes overblown.
    尽管这篇关于人质的报道有些夸大其词，但还算公正。
17. He must be treated as a hostage of high rank, not as a common prisoner.
    必须把他当成高级人质来对待，而不能像对待普通囚犯那样。
18. The FBI's renowned hostage rescue team was suited up and ready to go.
    美国联邦调查局威名远扬的人质救援小组整装待命。
19. Everybody who goes into this region, whoever they are, is at risk of being taken hostage.
    进入这个地区的人，不管是谁，都有被劫为人质的危险。
20. You think she was held hostage?
    你认为她被作为人质了？
21. She confirmed she's holding Tony hostage.
    她证实了她抓到tony作人质。
22. Bureau, hostage rescue teams and snipers in position.
    警察，人质营救组和狙击手都到位了。
23. They have taken your men hostage.
    他们带走了你的人质。
24. Police shot and killed Jackson, freeing the hostage without injury.
    警察开枪击毙了杰克逊，安全的解救了人质。
25. They have a hostage. it's my wife.
    他们劫持了一名人质，是我妻子。
26. They were wrong. he's been held in hostage.
    他们错了。他被当作人质关押了。
27. Both the hostage and hostage's fatherare safe.
    人质和父亲都安全了。
28. And he's holding a girl hostage.
    还抓了一个女孩做人质。
29. One of the terrorists was posing as a hostage.
    有一个恐怖分子伪装成了人质。
30. But the hostage's life was saved.
    但是保住了人质的生命。

n.

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

noun

1. a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms

   Synonym:    surety