holding a hostage

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。

And that is why they are holding middle class Americans hostage in their pursuit of their foolish desire to tax America's job creators in the middle of a recession.

这就是为什么他们要把美国中产阶层押为人质，他们愚蠢地想要在经济衰退阶段中向美国的就业机会创造者提高征税。

Fair enough, but Apple would be silly to think it can keep the mobile market all to itself, and its developer agreement comes off as a piece of literature holding developers hostage.

想法是很合理的，但是苹果认为能独占整个手机市场也太傻了，它的开发者协议就成了一张绑架开发者的纸。