Three children were taken hostage during the bank robbery.
在银行抢劫案中有三名儿童被扣为人质。
He was held hostage for almost a year.
他被扣为人质几近一年。
The government is negotiating the release of the hostages.
政府正就释放人质进行谈判。
1.人质;抵押品
1.a person who is the prisoner of someone who threatens to kill them if they do not get what they want
1.He said the hostage-taker had wanted to kill himself in the classroom.
查特尔说，劫持者本想在教室里自杀。
2.Staying on might have turned him into a hostage to those seeking to protect their financial interests.
普京继续任职可能会致使那些想方设法保护自己经济利益的人把他掳为一名人质。
3.The old man to do so is to let the hero was not airport officials hostage, can freely into New York.
老人这么做是为了让主人公不被机场官员要挟，能毫无顾忌的进入纽约。
4.Police marched from the Trident hotel in Mumbai, scene of a hostage drama a year ago, and abseiled down prominent buildings.
一年前在三叉戟酒店（Tridenthotel）上演了扣押人质的戏剧性一幕，警方游行正是从那里开始，一路向下经过主要的建筑物。
5.A worried easterner describes the alliance as "like an 18th-century Polish parliament, hostage to its most irresponsible member" .
忧心忡忡的东欧人将北约形容为“18世纪的波兰议会，任由其大多不负责任的成员操作”。
6.A decapitated body wearing an orange jumpsuit was found in the Tigris River Thursday, possibly that of a foreigner taken hostage.
周四，伊拉克警察在底格里斯河里发现一名穿着桔红色衣服的无头尸体，估计该尸体是被斩首的外国人质。
7.Question: If someone with multiple personalities tries to commit suicide, do the police consider it a hostage situation?
问题：如果一个具有多重性格的人想要自杀，警察是否会认为发生人质劫持情况？
8.Reported that this was the first killing of American hostage by Somali pirates.
报道称，这是索马里海盗首次杀害美国人质。
9.He said the hostage-taker was killed with a sniper shot to the head after he wounded a police sharpshooter.
他说，劫持人质者在打伤一名警方神枪手后被一名狙击兵射中脑门而击毙。
10.Two people are believed to have been killed and there were still reports last night of up to 10 Israelis being held hostage in the city.
已有两人确定在袭击中身亡。据报道，到昨晚孟买市中仍有多至十名的犹太人被扣为人质。