hostage
hostage
noun
hold (或 take) someone hostage
noun
- a person seized or held as security for the fulfilment of a condition
人质
hold (或 take) someone hostage
- seize and keep someone as a hostage
把某人持为人质
- an act, commitment, or remark which is regarded as unwise because it invites trouble or could prove difficult to live up to
招惹麻烦（或不明智、很难做到）的行为（或许诺、话语）担风险
making objectives explicit is to give a hostage to fortune.
使目的明确就要承担风险。
- Middle English: from Old French, based on late Latin obsidatus 'the state of being a hostage' (the earliest sense in English), from Latin obses, obsid- 'hostage'
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- unfavorable adj.不利的,相反的,令人不快的,不吉利的
- unfavorably adv.不利地,不适宜地,反对地,令人不快地
- unfavourably adv.不适宜地,不利地,反对地,令人不快地
- unfearing adj.大无畏的，不畏惧的
- unfeasible adj.不能实行的，难实施的
- unfeather vt.拔去（鸟等）的羽毛
- unfeatured adj.无特征的，无特色的，不给予显著地位的
- unfed adj.未得到食物的，未得到支持的
- unfeed adj.未得到小费的
- unfeeling adj.失去感觉的,无感觉的,无情的,无同情心的
- unfeelingly adv.无情地，无感觉的,眼睁睁
- unfeigned adj.真实的
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