captive
captive 英 [ˈkæptɪv] 美 [ˈkæptɪv]
adj. 被俘虏的；被迷住的 n. 俘虏；迷恋者
名词复数:captives
- A captive is something that has been captured and can’t escape, like a prisoner of war or a panda in a zoo.
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- adj. 被俘虏的；被迷住的
- n. 俘虏；迷恋者
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1. captive animals
关在笼子里的动物
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2. They were taken captiveby masked gunmen.
他们被蒙面的持枪歹徒劫持了。
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3. captive breeding (= the catching and breeding of wild animals)
野生动物的人工捕获饲养
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4. A salesman loves to have a captive audience (= listening because they have no choice).
推销员喜欢不得不听的听众。
- captive (adj.) late 14c., "made prisoner, enslaved," from Latin captivus "caught, taken prisoner," from captus, past participle of capere "to take, hold, seize" (from PIE root *kap- "to grasp"). Captive audience is from 1849.
- captive (n.) "one who is taken and kept in confinement; one who is completely in the power of another," c. 1400, from noun use of Latin captivus (see captive (adj.)). An Old English noun was hæftling, from hæft "taken, seized" (see haft (n.)), which is from the same root.
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