音标:['hɒstɪdʒ] ;
hostage
['hɔstidʒ]
n.
人质
被扣作人质的状态
抵押品,担保物
不由自主的人
[古语]寄宿处,旅店
短语:
(give) a hostage (或hostages) to fortune (或time,history)
随时可能失去的人(或东西)(尤指妻室儿女)
把一切交托给命运,听天由命
hold someone in hostage
扣押某人作人质
take someone hostage
抓某人作人质

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ad damnum
adhesive paste
ambidextrously
amphibiolith
anhinga
Argentré-du-Plessis
armigerous
ascendeur
bacilliary
backburned
Batelov
be at the bottom of
beastly
bicornuta
Bihār, State of
biological computational mechanics
bongus
bow oneself out (of)
burst-correcting code
canadensis
CASE Tools
CILO
codey
combination cutting tool
community-oriented
consubstantiations
creditor debtor relation
cut-off clamp
dancing girls
daylight locus
dehusker
direct reading compass
dirigible wheel
Dixoil bronze
Down's cell
dunjill
ebonicss
electroheat equipment
eluxated
enter into an agreement
equisignal surface
erhylglycocoll
euchirella formosa
fast access retrieval system
flain
frequency of amendment
fried fish slices with liquor sauce
galathea inflata
geminivirus
Grosz, George
grottoed
halcyonian
holder of license
inner root sheath
intensive agriculture
interchangeable wheel
interlace scanning
interlayer potassium
Kotlenski Prokhod
latin american town dance
leave without pay
Leydig's cylinders
little colorado
metallic salts poisoning
Murray Glacier
niaiserie
nonionizable
orpanoxin
outrivals
over-dress
pain past is pleasure
pendulent
plant item
plate divergence
post-tensioned prestressing
potassium bromate titration
primary data type
pussy bandits
resinites
restricken
reverse billing
Rhizopogon
Rich.
sacrificial anode drainage
sector sluice valve
sempere
series excited dynamo
Sir Humphrey
solar-generateds
stability and control augmentation
stay hook
sulcus transversus
symmetric figure
system of linear inequalities in two variables
tax-information
tigloyloxytropanol
toughening rubber
transcendental metaphysics
twin cannon barbette
undissembled
VPU
zhongganling tablets