[ADJ 形容词]被监禁的；被关押的 A captive person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
[LITERARY 文]
Her heart had begun to pound inside her chest like a captive animal.
她心情紧张起来，一颗心在胸膛里扑通扑通跳个不停。
A captive is someone who is captive.俘虏；囚犯
He described the difficulties of surviving for four months as a captive.
他描述了被俘4个月里挣扎求生的艰难岁月。
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[ADJ 形容词]（观众）被强制的，受控制的；(市场)垄断的，没有选择权的 A captive audience is a group of people who are not free to leave a certain place and so have to watch or listen. A captive market is a group of people who cannot choose whether or where to buy things.
[ADJ n]
We all performed action songs, sketches and dances before a captive audience of parents and patrons...
家长和赞助人被迫观看了我们表演的指令歌、滑稽小品和舞蹈。
Airlines consider business travellers a captive market.
航空公司把商务旅行者视为垄断性市场。
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[PHRASE 短语]俘虏；扣押；关押 If you take someone captive or hold someone captive, you take or keep them as a prisoner.
[V inflects]
Richard was finally released on February 4, one year and six weeks after he'd been taken captive...
理查德在被扣押一年零六个星期后，终于在2月4日获释。
Rebels in Liberia have released four foreigners after holding them captive for a week.
利比里亚的叛乱分子释放了4名被扣押了一个星期的外国人。
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cap·tive/ˈkæptɪv; NAmEˈkæptɪv/
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captivecaptivesadjective1kept as a prisoner or in a confined space; unable to escape 被监禁的；被关起来的；被困住的◆captive animals关在笼子里的动物◆They were taken captiveby masked gunmen. 他们被蒙面的持枪歹徒劫持了。◆captive breeding (= the catching and breeding of wild animals)野生动物的人工捕获饲养2[only before noun ]not free to leave a particular place or to choose what you want to do 人身自由受限制的；受控制的；无权选择的◆A salesman loves to have a captive audience(= listening because they have no choice).推销员喜欢不得不听的听众。nouna person who is kept as a prisoner, especially in a war 囚徒；俘虏；战俘cap·tive/ˈkæptɪv; NAmEˈkæptɪv/
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captive1 adjective
captive2 noun
captivecap‧tive1 /ˈkæptɪv/ adjective
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1kept in prison or in a place that you are not allowed to leave: captive soldiers captive animals His son had been taken captive (=became a prisoner) during the raid. a pilot who was held captive (=kept as a prisoner) for six years2captive audience people who listen or watch someone or something because they have to, not because they are interested3captive market the people who must buy a particular product or service, because they need it and there is only one company selling it4be captive to something to be unable to think or speak freely, because of being influenced too much by something: Our communities should not be captive to the mistakes of the past.
captive1 adjective
captive2 noun
captivecaptive2 noun [countable]
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someone who is kept as a prisoner, especially in a war
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