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Từ điển Việt Anh Việt 4in1 - English Vietnamese 4 in 1 Dictionary
hostage
hos‧tage /ˈhɒstɪdʒ $ ˈhɑː-/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: hoste; ⇨ ↑host1] 1. someone who is kept as a prisoner by an enemy so that the other side will do what the enemy demands ⇨ kidnap: The group are holding two tourists hostage (=keeping them as hostages). a family taken hostage at gunpoint 2. be (a) hostage to something to be influenced and controlled by something, so that you are not free to do what you want: Our country must not be held hostage to our past. 3. a hostage to fortune something that you have promised to do that may cause you problems in the future • • • THESAURUS ▪ prisoner someone who is kept in a prison as a punishment for a crime, or while they are waiting for their ↑trial: Prisoners may be locked in their cells for twenty-two hours a day. | a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder ▪ convict especially written someone who has been found guilty of a crime and sent to a prison. Convict is used especially about someone who is sent to prison for a long time. It is more commonly used in historical descriptions, or in the phrase an escaped convict: The convicts were sent from England to Australia. | Police were hunting for an escaped convict. | Low-risk convicts help to fight forest fires and clean up public lands. ▪ inmate someone who is kept in a prison or a mental hospital: Some inmates are allowed to have special privileges. | He was described by a fellow inmate as a quiet man. ▪ captive especially literary someone who is kept somewhere and not allowed to go free, especially in a war or fighting. Captive is a rather formal word which is used especially in literature: Their objective was to disarm the enemy and release the captives. | She was held captive (=kept as a prisoner) in the jungle for over three years. ▪ prisoner of war a soldier, member of the navy etc who is caught by the enemy during a war and kept in the enemy’s country: My grandad was a prisoner of war in Germany. | They agreed to release two Iranian prisoners of war. ▪ hostage someone who is kept somewhere as a prisoner, in order to force people to agree to do something, for example in order to get money or to achive a political aim: Diplomats are continuing their efforts to secure the release of the hostages. | The US hostages were held in Tehran for over a year. ▪ detainee/internee someone who is kept in a prison, usually because of their political views and often without a trial: In some cases, political detainees have been beaten or mistreated. | 23,531 people passed through the camps between 1944 and 1962, including 14,647 political internees. | the detainees at Guantanamo Bay
hostagehu | | | | | ◎ | ['hɔstidʒ] | ※ | danh từ | | ■ | con tin | | ☆ | the hijackers kept the pilot on board the plane as (a) hostage | | bọn không tặc bắt người phi công trên phi cơ làm con tin | | 〆 | hostage to fortune | | ✓ | người hoặc vật mà mình có được và rồi có thể đau khổ nếu bị mất đi (nhất là vợ chồng con cái); con tin định mệnh | | 〆 | to take/hold somebody hostage | | ✓ | bắt/giữ ai làm con tin | | ☆ | the gunman is holding two children hostage in the building | | tên cướp có súng đang giữ hai đứa trẻ làm con tin trong toà nhà đó |
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