pawn

noun

1. （国际象棋的）兵，卒
   a chess piece of the smallest size and least value. Each player has eight pawns at the start of a game.
2. 被利用的人；走卒
   a person or group whose actions are controlled by more powerful people
   1. The hostages are being used as political pawns.
      人质正被用作政治卒子。

verb

1. 质押；典当
   to leave an object with a pawnbroker in exchange for money. The object is returned to the owner if he or she pays back the money within an agreed period of time. If not, it can be sold.

1. 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.
   1. He is contemplating pawning his watch.
      他正在考虑抵押他的手表。
2. （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.
3. 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.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。

1. He is contemplating pawning his watch.
   他正在考虑抵押他的手表。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. He had no way to redeem his furniture out of pawn.
   他无法赎回典当的家具。
5. I'll get there even if I have to pawn my watch to get the railway fare.
   纵然我必须将表押当做为火车旅费，我也要去那儿。
6. Master Chen was found in a pawn shop them.
   后来陈师傅在当铺里发现了它们。
7. The registration systems of purchase, consignment, pawn and auction verification shall be carried out;
   执行收购、寄售、典当和拍卖验证登记制度；
8. Enterprises with motor vehicle ownership and disposition of the pledge to apply for financing pawn business through our company.
   企业以具有所有权和处分权的机动车做质押，向我公司申请典当融资的业务。
9. I'm not trying to pawn off my responsibility!
   我不是想推卸我的责任！
10. The shadow banks are more akin to pawn shops or loan sharks for small companies and start-ups.
    对于小企业和初创企业而言，影子银行更类似于典当行或高利贷。
11. Father just stopped off at a pawn shop.
    父亲在典当行门口停下了。
12. First, then, I take your bishop with my pawn.
    那么，首先，我用我的兵吃了你的象。
13. Karpov adjourned the chess game a pawn ahead.
    卡尔波夫挺了个兵。
14. He had nothing left that he could pawn.
    他再也没有什么可以典当的东西了。
15. She managed to save enough money to redeem her jewellery from the pawn shop.
    她设法存够钱从当铺赎回了珠宝。
16. If you go, the people will deem you to be a pawn.
    若您去了，国民认为你是酒色之徒。
17. To his dismay, there was really nothing left to pawn.
    令他沮丧的是，根本没有东西可以典当了。
18. He redeemed his watch from pawn.
    他赎回了典当的表。
19. Halt! Or I'll shoot you with my pawn shop ticket!
    不许动！不然我要用当票向你射击了！
20. His television set is in pawn to pay his rent.
    他当了电视机以支付房租。
21. Well, if it's too expensive, I can always pawn my watch.
    好吧，如果它很贵的话，我去当了我的手表。
22. If it was our government, I'm sure you were just a pawn.
    如果是我们政府干的，我敢肯定你只是个卒子而已。
23. That my daddy pawn shop next door.
    我爸爸把隔壁的店典当出去了。
24. You can't pawn me off on her anymore.
    你不能再以我来要挟她了。
25. You were a pawn in the plot.
    你是计划中的一个棋子。
26. Father made a general, his son or a pawn.
    父亲做了将军，儿子还是马前卒。
27. Don't you see that I'm a pawn in this, too?
    你看不出来我也只是个棋子吗？
28. I followed him from the junk yard to the pawn shop to the race track.
    我跟着他到过垃圾场，当铺，还有赛马场。
29. When the game is finished, the king and the pawn go into to the same box.
    游戏结束时，国王和士兵进入同一个盒子。
30. I was merely a pawn in his cunning stratagem.
    我只不过是他那狡猾计谋中的一件工具。

n.

in pawn

• 被抵押；被典当
  if sth is in pawn , it has been pawned
  1. All her jewellery was in pawn.
     她把首饰全典当了。

noun

1. borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan

2. (chess) the least powerful piece

3. a person used by another to gain an end

   Synonym:    instrumentcat's-paw

4. an article deposited as security

verb

1. leave as a guarantee in return for money
   1. pawn your grandfather's gold watch

   Synonym:    soakhock