pawn是什么意思？

pawn

英[pɔ:n] 美[pɔn]

• n. 典当，抵押物，（国际象棋中的）兵，卒，<比喻>爪牙，人质；
• vt. 典当，抵押，以（某事物）担保，拿（生命，名誉等）作保证；

复数：pawns;

第三人称单数：pawns;

过去式：pawned;

过去分词：pawned;

现在分词：pawning;

例句

• A pawn automatically promotes when it reaches the eighth rank. 卒子在到达第八横格时自动升级。
• When his pawn reached the other side, it was queened. 当他的兵达到另一边时, 它变成皇后.
• She has redeemed her jewellery from pawn. 她从当铺赎回了珠宝.
• A good pawn never shamed his master. 典当好,面子保.
• He had no way to redeem his furniture out of pawn. 他无法赎回典当的家具.
• Don't continue to be a pawn of the Jedi Council! 别再继续当绝地长老会手中的小卒子!
• It looks as though he is being used as a political pawn by the President... 看起来他似乎被总统当作了政治卒子。

词组

• in pawn
  (of an object) held as security by a pawnbroker 当掉，押出
• pawn someone/thing off
  pass off someone or something unwanted 把不要的人（或物）处理掉

英语四级真题

With British food, I think that Hong Kong restaurants are keeping up," says David Tamlyn, the Welsh executive chef at The Pawn in Wan Chai.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  典当；抵押
  If you pawn something that you own, you leave it with a pawnbroker, who gives you money for it and who can sell it if you do not pay back the money before a certain time.
  例句
  He is contemplating pawning his watch. 他正在考虑抵押他的手表。
• N-COUNT
  （国际象棋中的）兵，卒
  In chess, a pawn is the smallest and least valuable playing piece. Each player has eight pawns at the start of the game.
• N-COUNT
  马前卒；走卒；爪牙
  If you say that someone is using you as a pawn, you mean that they are using you for their own advantage.
  例句
  It looks as though he is being used as a political pawn by the President... 看起来他似乎被总统当作了政治卒子。 They are the pawns in the power game played by their unseen captors. 他们是那些看不见的俘获者手中的权力斗争工具。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  被人利用的人;小卒
  A good pawn never shamed his master. 典当好,面子保。
• vt.
  典当, 抵押
  He pawned his gold watch to pay the rent. 他抵当了金表用以交租。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. an article deposited as security
  2. a person used by another to gain an end
  3. (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank
  4. borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan
• Verb
  1. leave as a guarantee in return for money;
  "pawn your grandfather's gold watch"

行业词典

• 体育： 兵；卒；
  法律： 当押；典押；抵押品；质契；