kept as a prisoner or in a space that you cannot get out of; unable to escape 被监禁的；被关起来的；被困住的 captive animals 关在笼子里的动物 They were taken captive by masked gunmen. 他们被蒙面的持枪歹徒劫持了。 captive breeding (= the breeding of wild animals in zoos, etc.) 野生动物的圈养 She was held captive in a castle. 她被关押在一个城堡里。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- take somebody
- hold somebody
- keep somebody
- …
- [only before noun]
not free to leave a particular place or to choose what you want to do 人身自由受限制的；受控制的；无权选择的
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin captivus, from capere ‘seize, take’.