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.
双语例句
例：
It is hopeful that two hostages will be freed in the next few days.
两名人质有望在几天后获释。
2.?[C, U 有变体名词] 受到…的限制
If you say you are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control.
双语例句
例：
Wine growers say they've been held hostage to the interests of cereal farmers.
葡萄酒制造商们说他们已被谷物种植者的利益所左右。
PHRASE. 习语
take someone hostage , hold someone hostage
1.?将某人扣作人质
If someone is taken hostage or is held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage.
双语例句
例：
He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.