hostage的意思

基本释义

• n 人质

  someone who is kept as a prisoner by an enemy so that the other side will do what the enemy demands

例句

1. The group are holding two tourists hostage (= keeping them as hostages ) .

   这伙人挟持了两名游客作为人质。

2. a family taken hostage at gunpoint

   在枪口下被劫为人质的一家人

近义词

同根词