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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
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.
He is contemplating pawning his watch.
他正在考虑抵押他的手表。
In chess, a pawn is the smallest and least valuable playing piece. Each player has eight pawns at the start of the game.
If you say that someone is using you as a pawn, you mean that they are using you for their own advantage.
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。
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
1. leave as a guarantee in return for money;
in pawn
当掉,押出
pawn someone/thing off
把不要的人(或物)处理掉
We are just a pawn in the love, the love mercy, powerless.
我们只是爱情里的一颗棋子, 受爱情摆布, 无能为力.
The old pawn shop is located in the FuQiang Street.
清代年间此街有当铺,故富强街旧称典当街.
Invade with rook to produce a passed pawn.
用王和车进攻,并形成通路兵.
I redeemed my watch from the pawn shop.
我把手表从当里赎回来了.
Alas this being just like the original Mahatma is only a pawn of the false intervention.
可是,这个存在体就像最初的Mahatma一样,只是虚假干涉的利用物.