pawning
v. 典当,抵押( pawn的现在分词 ); 以(某事物)担保
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。
He is contemplating pawning his watch.
他正在考虑抵押他的手表。
My clothes were excellent, and I had jewellery; but I never even thought of pawning them.
我的衣服是很讲究的, 我有珠宝; 但是我从没想到要把它们当掉.
He took the computer with a view to pawning it.
他带着电脑目的就是把它当掉.