Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense hijacks, present participle hijacking, past tense, past participle hijacked
1VERB 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. 劫持(飞机或其他交通工具)
Two men tried to hijack a plane on a flight from Riga to Murmansk. [VERB noun]
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. [VERB noun]
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. [VERB-ed]
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。
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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。
2VERB 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. 强行控制;操纵 [disapproval]
A peaceful demonstration had been hijacked by anarchists intent on causing trouble. [VERB noun]