hostage的读音 hostage中文意思
英音
[ˈhɒstɪdʒ]
美音 [ˈhɑ:stɪdʒ]
n. 人质；抵押品美音 [ˈhɑ:stɪdʒ]
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.
hostage 用法和例句
- The financial markets have taken the world economy hostage .
- 金融市场已将全球经济挟为人质。
- They are holding several trainees hostage .
- 目前他们手里有数名受训人员作为人质。
- Lofty words are always a hostage to fortune .
- 崇高的字眼从来就是命运的人质。
- Yet I am not held hostage anymore !
- 然而我再也不是人质了！
- The army also said the protesters were holding five soldiers hostage .
- 泰国军方还声称，示威者持有5名士兵人质。
汉语翻译
n. 人质, 抵押品【经】 人质, 抵押品
英语解释
名词 hostage:
- a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms同义词：surety
例句
- The terrorists are holding three men hostage.恐怖分子把三个人扣为人质。
- The hostage had a rifle levelled at his head.一枝步枪瞄准著人质的头。
- He kept the pilot as a hostage.他把驾驶员当做人质。
- The company took the cars as hostage.公司把汽车当做抵押品。
详细解释
hos.tage
n.（名词）A person held by one party in a conflict as security that specified terms will be met by the opposing party.人质：被冲突一方扣押的人，以作为对方满足其提出的条件的保证One that serves as security against an implied threat:制约物：对抗暗藏的威胁事物：例句：superpowers held hostage to each other by their nuclear arsenals.超级大国因各自拥有核工厂而互相制约
One that is manipulated by the demands of another:被控物：被另一事物的要求所操纵的事物：例句：.National policies cannot be made hostage to another country.(Alan D. Romberg).一个国家的政策不能被另一个国家所操纵.(艾伦D.龙伯格)
来源：Middle English 中古英语 from Old French 源自 古法语 probably from host [guest, host] * see host 可能源自 host [客人，主人] *参见 host