動詞 hole up:

1. remain secluded or in hiding
2. score a hole in one
3. sleep during winter
   同義詞：hibernate

1. The gang (was) holed up in the mountains somewhere.
   那幫匪徒躲在山中某處。
2. Nearly10,000 Western civilians, mostly British and American, are holed up in captured Kuwait City. If Saddam gets his hands on them, as he intends to, they are to be designated human targets and doomed.
   將近一萬名西方平民(多半是英國人和美國人)躲藏在被占領的科威特城。如果薩達姆能如愿，使他們落在他手里，他們將被指定為活靶，難逃浩劫。