hostagenoun
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。
These are all words for a person who has been captured and is being kept somewhere.以上各词和短语均指被捕获、关押的人。
a person who has been captured, for example by an enemy, and is being kept somewhere指被（敌人等）关起来的人、俘虏、战俘。
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指人质
( literary ) a person who is kept as a prisoner指囚徒、俘虏
Captive often occurs in more historical contexts involving people such as kings, queens and princesses. It is also sometimes found in references to political organizations holding people against their will. Prisoner is more often used to talk about people who have been captured in war. |
a person who is kept in prison, especially for political reasons and often without a trial尤指因政治原因，通常是未经审讯被扣留、关押的人
a person, usually a member of the armed forces, who is captured by the enemy during a war and kept in a prison camp until the war has finished指战俘
hostage
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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.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。
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PHRASE 被扣作人质
If someone is taken hostage or is held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage.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。
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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.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。
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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。
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He was held hostage for almost a year .
他被扣为人质几近一年。
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The release of the hostages could not be achieved without the use of force .
不使用武力不可能使人质获释。
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The hostages were used as a human shield .
人质被当成了人体盾牌。
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They refused to release their hostages unless certain conditions were met .
除非某些条件得到满足，否则他们不会释放人质。
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The gunman used the hostages as a human shield .
持枪歹徒用人质作人体盾牌。
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The government is negotiating the release of the hostages .
政府正就释放人质进行谈判。
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Plans to spring the hostages have failed .
营救人质的计划失败了。
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The hostages are being used as political pawns .
人质正被用作政治卒子。
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The hijackers agreed to free a further ten hostages .
劫持者已同意再释放十名人质。
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We successfully negotiated the release of the hostages .
我们成功地达成了释放人质的协议。
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They showed no mercy to their hostages .
他们对人质丝毫不讲仁慈。
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They are calling for the release of the hostages on humanitarian grounds .
他们站在人道主义立场要求释放人质。
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The hijackers set the hostages free .
劫机者释放了人质。
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They shot ten hostages in reprisal for the assassination of their leader .
他们的首领遭到暗杀，他们为了报复，枪杀了十名人质。
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The hostages spoke openly about the terrible ordeal they had been through .
人质公开陈述了他们所遭受的非人的折磨。
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The hostages emerged from their ordeal unscathed .
各人质历尽磨难后安然生还。
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The hostages were tied up and blindfolded .
人质被捆绑起来并蒙上了眼睛。
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The government should continue to use its influence for the release of all hostages .
政府应继续运用其影响力来解救所有人质。
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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。
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We obviously want to see the hostages home , but not at any price .
我们显然也希望看到人质回家，但并不是不惜任何代价。
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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。
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The hostages cannot go home just yet
人质目前还不能回家。
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The president has said the United States will never pay ransom for the hostages
总统称美国永远不会为这些人质支付赎金。
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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。
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The people in your grasp are not guests , they are hostages
你所控制的这些人不是客人，而是人质。
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Any hostages in the firing line would have been sacrificed
任何射击线上的人质就都会成为牺牲品。
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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。
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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。
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Their efforts helped the hostages gain their freedom .
他们的努力帮助人质获得了自由。
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