hostage

英 ['hɒstɪdʒ] 美['hɑstɪdʒ]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

n. 人质；抵押品

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中文词源

hostage 人质

来自古法语hostage,客人，作为抵押的人质，来自拉丁语hospes,客人，来自PIE*ghostis,外来人，陌生人，词源同guest.

词态变化

复数: hostages;

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东道主（host）询问，人质的年龄（age）

英文词源

hostage: hostage: [13] Despite its similarity, hostage is not related to any of the English words host. It comes via Old French hostage from *obsidāticum, a Vulgar Latin derivative of late Latin obsidātus ‘condition of being held as a security for the fulfilment of an undertaking’. This is turn was based on Latin obses ‘hostage’, a compound noun formed from the prefix ob- ‘before’ and the base of sedēre ‘sit’ (English obsess [16] is made up of virtually the same elements). The use of hostage for the ‘person held’ was established before English took it over.
=> obsess
hostage (n.): late 13c., from Old French hostage "person given as security or hostage" (12c., Modern French ôtage), either from hoste "guest" (see host (n.1)) via notion of "a lodger held by a landlord as security," or from Late Latin obsidanus "condition of being held as security," from obses "hostage," from ob- "before" + base of sedere "to sit" [OED]. Modern political/terrorism sense is from 1970.

双语例句

1. 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。

2. 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。

3. 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。

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. There are conflicting reports about the identity of the hostage.: 有关人质身份的报道相互矛盾。

英英释意

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

考试真题

Such hijacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product.

Such hiJacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product.

实用场景例句

The government is negotiating the release of the hostages.: 政府正就释放人质进行谈判。

He was held hostage for almost a year.: 他被扣为人质几近一年。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

It is Nina, and she informs him that Victor is alive and holding Jack as hostage.: 电话的那端是尼娜, 她将维克多还在生而且将杰克劫为人质的信息告诉了参议员.

The company took the cars as hostage.: 公司把汽车当做抵押品.

He is take hostage by the guerilla.: 游击队将他扣为人质.

Just so I'm not hostage to baseball and day on all the sports networks.: 这样我就不会整天在网上看到的都是棒球!

We laugh at the angry people on internet when Chinese were caught as hostage.: 凡是中国人质被抓,就笑网络愤青.

Don't fire! He hijacked a girl as a hostage.: 别开枪! 他劫持了一名女孩子作人质.

Police identified the hostage as Dieter Hoss.: 警察认明人质是迪特尔霍斯.

He's now on the second floor, holding Mayor Gibson and his staff hostage.: 他现在在二楼挟持吉布森市长及其随从作为人质.

It's alleged that the hostage already dead.: 有人说人质已经死了.

He kept the pilot as a hostage.: 他把驾驶员当做人质.

Would you stroll into a police station afterward and take a guy hostage?: 你会事后晃进警察局抓个人作人质么 ?

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。

The hostage had been shackled to a radiator.: 当时人质被铐在暖气片上。

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。

The group had shot dead another hostage.: 该组织又开枪打死了一名人质。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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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