en/ielts/vocabulary/hostage

hostage

人质

Difficulty
0.55
Importance
0.60
Type
VOCABULARY
Level
IELTS

Examples

  • 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。

  • a family taken hostage at gunpoint

    在枪口下被劫为人质的一家人

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