State media in Venezuela say prisoners who took control of a jail near the capital Caracas three weeks ago have released 148 fellow inmates whom they were allegedly holding hostage.

委内瑞拉官方媒体称，三周前控制了首都加拉加斯附近一座监狱的囚犯释放了他们所劫持的148名犯人。

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Somebody is holding your wife hostage.

有人在扣留你的妻子当人质。

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It took only three shots for navy snipers to kill the trio of pirates holding Captain Richard Phillips hostage on a lifeboat drifting in the high sea.

海军狙击手仅用三枪就击毙了三名海盗，当时海盗挟持船长理查德·菲利普斯作为人质乘坐一艘救生艇漂浮在公海上。

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A group of small states on the coast of North Africa was seizing American ships and holding their crews hostage.

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"It is time to stop holding workers laid off in this recession hostage to Washington politics."

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Later, a militant group was reported to have killed an American soldier it had been holding hostage.

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It has been illegally holding hostage Gilad Schalit incognito for four years.

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