Question

hostage n.人质,抵押品 When hostages are taken, the hostage-takers often ask for ransom, which is money paid for the hostages. The funny thing about the movie Dog Day Afternoon is that when the bank robbers take hostages, the hostages don’t really want to leave because they sympathize with the robbers. People who take hostages might have other demands too. Unfortunately, hostages are not just in the movies, they’re abducted in real life for political and personal reasons. ★★★★☆ 2011.3

Accepted Answer

['hɔstidʒ] A hostage is a prisoner taken by kidnappers and held until the kidnappers get whatever they’re asking for. If you refuse to empty the litter box, your roommate might take your cat as a hostage until you clean it. Such hijacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]人质 A hostage is someone who has been captured by a person or organization and who may be killed or injured if people do not do what that person or organization demands. It is hopeful that two hostages will be freed in the next few days.有两名人质可望在几天后获释。2[PHRASE 短语]被扣作人质 If someone is taken hostage or is held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage.   [V inflects]He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.他第一次作为电视记者出国采访时就被扣作人质。3[N-VAR 可变名词]受限制的人；不由自主的人 If you say you are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control.   [N to n]With the reduction in foreign investments, the government will be even more a hostage to the whims of the international oil price...随着外资的减少，政府将更加受制于起伏不定的国际油价。Wine growers say they've been held hostage to the interests of the cereal and soybean farmers.葡萄种植兼酿酒者说他们一直都为谷物和大豆种植者的利益所绑架。

英语单词	hostage
英美音标	['hɔstidʒ]
中文释义	n.人质,抵押品
vocab简明	A hostage is a prisoner taken by kidnappers and held until the kidnappers get whatever they’re asking for. If you refuse to empty the litter box, your roommate might take your cat as a hostage until you clean it.
vocab扩展	When hostages are taken, the hostage-takers often ask for ransom, which is money paid for the hostages. The funny thing about the movie Dog Day Afternoon is that when the bank robbers take hostages, the hostages don’t really want to leave because they sympathize with the robbers. People who take hostages might have other demands too. Unfortunately, hostages are not just in the movies, they’re abducted in real life for political and personal reasons.
真题原句	Such hijacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes *hostage* to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product.
柯林斯星级	★★★★☆
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]人质 A hostage is someone who has been captured by a person or organization and who may be killed or injured if people do not do what that person or organization demands. It is hopeful that two hostages will be freed in the next few days. 有两名人质可望在几天后获释。 2 [PHRASE 短语]被扣作人质 If someone is taken hostage or is held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage. [V inflects] He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist. 他第一次作为电视记者出国采访时就被扣作人质。 3 [N-VAR 可变名词]受限制的人；不由自主的人 If you say you are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control. [N to n] With the reduction in foreign investments, the government will be even more a hostage to the whims of the international oil price... 随着外资的减少，政府将更加受制于起伏不定的国际油价。 Wine growers say they've been held hostage to the interests of the cereal and soybean farmers. 葡萄种植兼酿酒者说他们一直都为谷物和大豆种植者的利益所绑架。
来源	2011.3

Hostage Held Kidnappers They’re People Captured Organization Foreign