be (a) hostage to sth

be (a) hostage to sth to be influenced and controlled by something, so that you are not free to do what you want受制于某事:•Our country must not be held hostage to our past.我们的国家必须要摆脱昔日的束缚。

• aerocurves
• Balaam
• Leidenfrost point
• Heidelberg capsule
• shoot/stick one’s neck out
• unwinnable
• hey rube
• modern-minded
• mesmerisms
• relieve one's feelings
• coefficient B
• constant-conductance network
• post-boarding
• china marker
• back jump
• overreach
• presto chango
• royal octavo
• videocassette
• alternate immersion test
• in (all) fairness (to sb)
• Tillman, Benjamin Ryan
• draw up a chair
• Cartesian divers
• palazzo
• high colour
• macabrely
• penanced
• field-enhanced emission
• reclusion
• gastrectomy
• aeronautical radio beacon
• Briareus
• Myelographies
• exocytoses
• hesitates
• in series
• test-pit
• erosible
• antimolecule
• I might have known / guessed etc
• puffily
• dittoing
• kick up one's heels
• visual binaries
• death ash
• inter-Allied
• limeade
• choke sb up
• literations
• liltings
• fathomable
• take a drag at
• z-cars
• field ambulance
• censes
• actol
• sensibilized
• oil-gauge
• fling aside
• stand for cipher
• St. Andrews
• piluss
• whistle-stopper
• the Sacrament
• diamond wheel
• mash notes
• trust in
• Amon
• black racers
• arthropathic
• Saint Swithin's Day
• biggies
• hort
• tokomaks
• departees
• sand lovegrass
• wallpaper
• cramming system
• bribable
• stop instruction
• have an effect on
• PTE
• lepta
• all the same
• equatorial heat
• regroupment
• Sepsidae
• roebucks
• cesium-137
• in the ear
• draconic months
• stephanotiss
• globeflowers
• joggled
• pignuts
• sand devil
• ovulary
• pop quizzes
• relationships