hostages

英 [ˈhɒstɪdʒɪz]

美 [ˈhɑstədʒəz]

n. 人质
hostage的复数

柯林斯词典

N-COUNT 人质
Ahostageis 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。
PHRASE 被扣作人质
If someoneis taken hostageoris 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。
N-VAR 受限制的人;不由自主的人
If you say you arehostage tosomething, 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。

Prisoners armed with baseball bats used the hostages to hold police at bay.
手持棒球棒的囚犯们挟持了人质，使警察无法靠近。
Their efforts helped the hostages gain their freedom.
他们的努力帮助人质获得了自由。
There were fears that some of the Western hostages might be killed in reprisal
有人担心一些西方人质可能会受到报复性杀害。
The terrorists will only release their hostages on certain conditions.
恐怖分子只有在某些条件下才肯释放人质。
His release turned out to follow the pattern set by that of the other six hostages.
最终他的获释方式也和其他6名人质的获释如出一辙。
He called it particularly cynical to begin releasing the hostages on Christmas Day
他认为在圣诞节这天开始释放人质尤为讽刺。
Radical, militant factions want to continue using the hostages as a lever to gain concessions from the west.
激进的好战派想要继续利用人质作筹码来换取西方的让步。
He argued that the release of hostages should not occasion a change in policy.
他认为释放人质不应造成政策的改变。
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。
Britain is intensifying its efforts to secure the release of the hostages
英国正加紧努力确保人质的获释。