hostage
英['hɒstɪdʒ]
美['hɑstɪdʒ]
- n. 人质；抵押品
词态变化
复数: hostages;
助记提示
东道主（host） 询问，人质的年龄（age）
中文词源
hostage 人质
来自古法语hostage,客人，作为抵押的人质，来自拉丁语hospes,客人，来自PIE*ghostis,外来人，陌生人，词源同guest.
英文词源
- hostage
- hostage: [13] Despite its similarity, hostage is not related to any of the English words host. It comes via Old French hostage from *obsidāticum, a Vulgar Latin derivative of late Latin obsidātus ‘condition of being held as a security for the fulfilment of an undertaking’. This is turn was based on Latin obses ‘hostage’, a compound noun formed from the prefix ob- ‘before’ and the base of sedēre ‘sit’ (English obsess [16] is made up of virtually the same elements). The use of hostage for the ‘person held’ was established before English took it over.
=> obsess - hostage (n.)
- late 13c., from Old French hostage "person given as security or hostage" (12c., Modern French ôtage), either from hoste "guest" (see host (n.1)) via notion of "a lodger held by a landlord as security," or from Late Latin obsidanus "condition of being held as security," from obses "hostage," from ob- "before" + base of sedere "to sit" [OED]. Modern political/terrorism sense is from 1970.
双语例句
- 1. The class was held hostage by a hooded gunman.
- 全班同学被一个蒙面的持枪歹徒劫为人质。
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- 2. The hostage release could clear the decks for war.
- 人质的获释可能会为发动战争扫清障碍。
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- 3. The reporting of the hostage story was fair, if sometimes overblown.
- 尽管这篇关于人质的报道有些夸大其词，但还算公正。
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- 4. The former hostage is in remarkably good shape considering his ordeal.
- 想想人质曾遭受的折磨，获救后其身体状况已经是出奇地好了。
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- 5. There are conflicting reports about the identity of the hostage.
- 有关人质身份的报道相互矛盾。
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