Hostage is the pledge property that one party wins the trust of the other party to resolve the bilateral relations during the Zhou Dynasties, a special group among feudal lords and internal communications.
人质是两周时期为解决双边关系一方取信对方所出的质押物,是诸侯国之间交往乃至诸侯国内部一个较为特殊的群体。
参考来源 - 两周人质问题研究（研究生论文）·2,447,543篇论文数据，部分数据来源于NoteExpress
N-COUNT 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. 人质
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。
PHRASE If someone is taken hostage or is held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage. 将某人扣作人质
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。
N-VAR If you say you are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control. 受到…的限制
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。
There was none of the drama and relief of a hostage release.
丝毫没有人质释放的戏剧性场面和放松。
He must be treated as a hostage of high rank, not as a common prisoner.
他一定要作为一个高级人质而不是一般囚徒来对待。
He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis.
他通过冷静处理人质危机顿时使他的批评者们大吃一惊。
A group of small states on the coast of North Africa was seizing American ships and holding their crews hostage.
VOA: special.2009.05.27
Their goal: hijack the ship and hold the crew hostage until the ship's owners paid for their release.
VOA: special.2009.05.27
Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse was flown from Africa to New York City, where he was charged Tuesday with five crimes, including piracy and hostage-taking.
VOA: special.2009.04.25
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