hostage，英语单词，主要用作名词，作名词的意思是“人质”。

英 [ˈhɒstɪdʒ] 美 [ˈhɑːstɪdʒ]

n. 人质

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柯林斯英汉双解大词典

hostage /ˈhɒstɪdʒ/ CET6 TEM4

1.N-COUNT A hostage is 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. 人质

2.PHRASE If someone is taken hostage or is held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage. 将某人扣作人质

3.N-VAR If you say you are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control. 受到…的限制

Hostage Rescue 非常人质解救 ; 援救人质 ; 人质救援

Lethal Hostage 边境风云

Escorting hostage 掩护人质脱离中

Hostage Negotiation 人质谈判

Hostage crisis 人质危机

a hostage 人质作为保证的人 ; 人质

1、Somebody is holding your wife hostage. 有人在扣留你的妻子当人质。

2、The group had shot dead another hostage. 这伙人又打死了一名人质。

3、One group claimed to have executed the hostage. 一个组织声称他们已处死了那名人质。