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hostage

noun
 
/ˈhɒstɪdʒ/
/ˈhɑːstɪdʒ/
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  1. 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人质
    • 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。
    • The hijackers kept the pilot as a hostage on board the plane.劫机者把飞行员作为人质留在飞机上。
    • The gunmen took 24 hostages.持枪歹徒扣押了 24 名人质。
    • diplomatic efforts to get the hostages released解救人质的外交努力
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    Topics War and conflictc1, Crime and punishmentc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + hostage
    • hold (somebody)
    • keep (somebody)
    • seize
    • …
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    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, based on late Latin obsidatus ‘the state of being a hostage’ (the earliest sense in English), from Latin obses, obsid- ‘hostage’.
Idioms
a hostage to fortune
  1. something that you have, or have promised to do, that could cause trouble or worry in the future可能招惹麻烦（或担忧）的东西（或许诺）；造成后患的事物

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