• 基础释义
  • 例句
  • 柯林斯词典释义
例句
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。