hostage
hostage 英 [ˈhɒstɪdʒ] 美 [ˈhɑstɪdʒ]
n. 人质；抵押品
名词复数:hostages
- A hostage is a prisoner taken by kidnappers and held until the kidnappers get whatever they’re asking for. If you refuse to empty the litter box, your roommate might take your cat as a hostage until you clean it.
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- n. 人质；抵押品
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1. 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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2. He was held hostage for almost a year.
他被扣为人质几近一年。
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3. The government is negotiating the release of the hostages.
政府正就释放人质进行谈判。
- hostage (n.) late 13c., from Old French ostage, hostage "kindness, hospitality; residence, dwelling; rent, tribute; compensation; guarantee, pledge, bail; person given as security or hostage" (11c., Modern French ôtage), which is of uncertain origin. Either from hoste "guest" (see host (n.1)) via notion of "a lodger held by a landlord as security" [Watkins, Barnhart]; or else from Late Latin obsidanus "condition of being held as security," from obses "hostage," from ob- "before" + base of sedere "to sit," with spelling influenced by Latin hostis. [OED, Century Dictionary]. Modern political/terrorism sense is from 1970.
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