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人質
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.
例句
It is hopeful that two hostages will be freed in the next few days.
有兩名人質可望在幾天后獲釋。
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PHRASE
被扣作人質
If someone is taken hostage or is held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage.
例句
He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.
他第一次作為電視記者出國采訪時就被扣作人質。
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N-VAR
受限制的人;不由自主的人
If you say you are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control.
例句
With the reduction in foreign investments, the government will be even more a hostage to the whims of the international oil price...
隨著外資的減少，政府將更加受制于起伏不定的國際油價。
Wine growers say they've been held hostage to the interests of the cereal and soybean farmers.
葡萄種植兼釀酒者說他們一直都為谷物和大豆種植者的利益所綁架。