He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.
他第一次作为电视记者出国采访时就被扣作人质。
About 70% of all household and business debt is denominated in foreign currencies, mainly Swiss francs, making the country hostage to a currency over which it has limited control.
大约所有住户和商业的债务的70%是以外币计价的(主要是瑞士法郎),这就使国家受困于其有限控制的货币。
Japan's foreign minister, Seiji Maehara, complains that a tiny number of farmers hold the rest of the economy hostage.
日本外长前原诚司抱怨道,一小撮农民绑架了日本的经济。
According to Ecoterra, a Kenya-based group which tracks Somali piracy, 24 foreign-flagged vessels are presently being held hostage in Somalia with a total of 434 hostages on board.
据总部设在肯尼亚,专门监控索马里海盗活动的组织ecoterra统计:目前总共有24艘外国船只被劫持,船上共有434名人质。
A foreign correspondent writing for the UK's Guardian newspaper and two Afghan journalists held hostage for six days in Afghanistan have been released.
被阿富汗扣押六天的英国卫报驻外国记者以及另外两名阿富汗记者获释。
John Kerry believes in energy independence, so we aren't held hostage to the profits of oil companies or the sabotage of foreign oil fields.
约翰·克里坚信能源自主,因此我们不再因石油公司对利润的追求或外国油田的被破坏而受到威胁。
There has been a spate of "boss-napping"—taking senior managers hostage—often in foreign-owned firms.
关于“劫持老板”的说法甚嚣尘上,这是指一种通常发生在外资公司的挟持高级经理人的行为。
There has been a spate of "boss-napping"—taking senior managers hostage—often in foreign-owned firms.
关于“劫持老板”的说法甚嚣尘上,这是指一种通常发生在外资公司的挟持高级经理人的行为。
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