hostage
意味
- 人質
例文
Wife and children are hostages given to fortune.
妻子は運命に与えられた人質である。
He tried to brave it out while held as a hostage.
人質にとられながら、彼は努めて勇敢に振る舞った。
Sooner or later, the hostages will be set free.
遅かれ早かれ、人質達は解放されるだろう。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English hostage, ostage, from Old French hostage, ostage. This, in turn, is either from Old French hoste (“host”) + -age (in which case the sense development is from taking someone into "lodging" to taking them into "captivity", to applying the term to a captive), or is from Vulgar Latin obsidāticum (“condition of being held captive”), from Latin obses (“hostage, captive”), with the initial h- added under the influence of hoste or another word. Displaced native Old English ġīsl.