[VERB 动词]劫持（飞机或其他交通工具） If someone hijacks a plane or other vehicle, they illegally take control of it by force while it is travelling from one place to another.
[V n]
[V-ed]
Two men tried to hijack a plane on a flight from Riga to Murmansk...
两名男子试图劫持一架从里加飞往摩尔曼斯克的飞机。
A Korean airliner was hijacked by two passengers and forced to fly to Tashkent...
一架韩国的大型客机被两名乘客劫持，被迫飞往塔什干。
The hijacked plane exploded in a ball of fire.
被劫持的飞机爆炸，变成了一团火球。
Hijack is also a noun.
Every minute during the hijack seemed like a week.
被劫持过程中，每一分钟都过得如同一周那么漫长。
hijacking
Car hijackings are running at a rate of nearly 50 a day.
劫车事件的发生率高达每天近50起。
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[VERB 动词]强行控制；操纵 If you say that someone has hijacked something, you disapprove of the way in which they have taken control of it when they had no right to do so.
[V n]
[disapproval]
A peaceful demonstration had been hijacked by anarchists intent on causing trouble.
和平示威已遭到蓄意制造事端的无政府主义者的操控。
Oxford
hi·jack/ˈhaɪdʒæk; NAmEˈhaɪdʒæk/verb1hijacksth to use violence or threats to take control of a vehicle, especially a plane, in order to force it to travel to a different place or to demand sth from a government 劫持（交通工具，尤指飞机）◆The plane was hijacked by two armed men on a flight from London to Rome.飞机在从伦敦飞往罗马途中遭到两名持械男子劫持。☞collocationsat
crime
2hijacksth ( disapproving) to use or take control of sth, especially a meeting, in order to advertise your own aims and interests 操纵（会议等，以推销自己的意图）▶hi·jack·ing/ˈhaɪdʒækɪŋ; NAmEˈhaɪdʒækɪŋ/(alsohi·jack)noun[countable , uncountable ]◆There have been a series of hijackings recently in the area.这个地区最近发生了一连串劫持事件。◆an unsuccessful hijack劫持未遂☞compare
1to use violence or threats to take control of a plane, vehicle, or ship → carjack: The airliner was hijacked by a group of terrorists.2to take control of something and use it for your own purposes: Some people think the party has been hijacked by right-wing extremists.—hijacker noun [countable]
hijack1 verb
hijack2 noun
hijackhijack2 noun [countable]
word sets
British English when a plane, vehicle etc is hijacked
WDF
hijack
[ˈhaɪdʒæk]hijacked, hijacking, hijacks
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hijacked[1950] hijacking[994]
劫持(85%)，劫机(15%)
n.劫持；威逼；敲诈
vt.抢劫；揩油
vi.拦路抢劫
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