hostage

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

• angle of pitch
• ammonium hydrogen fluoride
• thermoneutral
• in sb's own backyard
• Goliards
• the/a slippery slope
• give sb a leg up
• the gutter press
• osteomalacia
• scirrhi
• electrostrictive
• recarburizes
• ecocide
• mixed chalice
• jassids
• take up one's livery
• rightist
• start from scratch
• autoshape
• nully
• justuss
• string galvanometer
• make someone's (或 the) flesh creep
• highlight-halftone
• hallstands
• nonunionism
• take a smoke
• Samarinda
• recitalist
• odontoid
• giant's cauldron
• thinnesses
• attitudinise
• get/take the hump
• fine earth
• well enough
• fluorescers
• outwards
• black buran
• ethosed
• deconsolidation
• xenoglossia
• helmsmen
• caramelise
• Sky Flash
• air-drieds
• pediococcus
• skin-dive
• polish sth ↔ up
• piston
• keratophakia
• anthologise
• dysgeusias
• if all else fails
• opopanax tree
• babys
• uncase
• bellperson
• relaxed DNA
• chili
• rebases
• charge with
• made to measure
• slap on
• leucopoietic
• florets
• nip in the blossom
• vernissages
• feels
• enough/something to be going on with
• Apple Isle
• talis
• controlling
• Elijah
• changed
• ahead of your time
• speakeress
• barstools
• patent theater
• laser gyro
• acid process
• almondy
• flux and reflux
• turnstiles
• lying-in
• cartilage bone
• admiratives
• calc-spar
• daub up
• nonsmoking
• assoc.
• sell someone a bill of goods
• double-hump fission barrier
• orjonikidzes
• transesterification
• aldermen
• staccatos
• dichotomizes
• draw a bead on
• insipidness