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    human shield

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˌhuman ˈshield noun [countable]  someone who is taken and kept as a prisoner by a criminal in order to protect the criminal from being killed, injured, or caught 人体盾牌，人质
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    human shield• Denis says they're using the children as a human shield.• There was even some laughter when one of the thieves picked up a little girl to use as a human shield.
    ˌhuman ˈshield nounChineseSyllable
    kept is a who as Corpus prisoner taken someone and


    human shield
    ˌhuman ˈshield noun [countable]
    someone who is taken and kept as a prisoner by a criminal in order to protect the criminal from being killed, injured, or caught