English Dictionary

hostage

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈhɒs.tɪd͡ʒ/

名詞

A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar agreement, such as to ensure the status of a vassal.

日本語の意味

人質（条約や合意の履行を保証するために担保として取られる人物）

To ensure his continued vassalage, the defeated lord sent his eldest son as a hostage to the suzerain.

従属関係を維持するため、敗れた領主は長男を宗主に人質として差し出した。

意味（1）

A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar agreement, such as to ensure the status of a vassal.

And there with alle was made hostage on bothe partyes and made hit as sure as hit myghte be that whether party had the vyctory soo to ende. And therewithal was made hostage on both parties, and made it as sure as it might be, that whether party had the victory, so to end.

意味（2）

A person seized in order to compel another party to act (or refrain from acting) in a certain way, because of the threat of harm to the hostage.

For example, a subject surprised in the act of robbery may take a hostage to use as a shield.

意味（3）

Something that constrains one's actions because it is at risk.

“Oh, well,” I consented sadly, “the garden will lose half of its charm, but such, I suppose, is my hostage to prosperity.”

意味（4）

One who is compelled by something, especially something that poses a threat; one who is not free to choose their own course of action.

You have a choice in every moment, so you can decide to be a host to God and carry around with you the calmness that is the Tao, or you can be a hostage to your ego, which insists that you can't really help feeling disorderly when you're in circumstances that resemble pandemonium.

意味（5）

The condition of being held as security or to compel someone else to act or not act in a particular way.

[…] which number, in Januarye last, the better halfe were already sett free, and departed, and the rest attend the oportunitye of good passadge, except only some few ordayned to bee kept in hostage, for the redemption of Turkes, pretended from us; […]

hostages （ plural ）