pawn
n. 典當,抵押物; (國際象棋中的)兵,卒; <比喻>爪牙; 人質
vt. 典當,抵押; 以(某事物)擔保; 拿(生命,名譽等)作保證
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.
他正在考慮抵押他的手錶。
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...
看起來他似乎被總統當作了政治卒子。
They are the pawns in the power game played by their unseen captors.
他們是那些看不見的俘獲者手中的權力鬥爭工具。
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
當掉,押出
pawn someone/thing off
把不要的人(或物)處理掉
We are just a pawn in the love, the love mercy, powerless.
我們只是愛情裡的一顆棋子, 受愛情擺佈, 無能為力.
The old pawn shop is located in the FuQiang Street.
清代年間此街有當鋪,故富強街舊稱典當街.
Invade with rook to produce a passed pawn.
用王和車進攻,並形成通路兵.
I redeemed my watch from the pawn shop.
我把手錶從當裡贖回來了.
Alas this being just like the original Mahatma is only a pawn of the false intervention.
可是,這個存在體就像最初的Mahatma一樣,只是虛假干涉的利用物.