pawning
v. 典當,抵押( pawn的現在分詞 ); 以(某事物)擔保
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。
He is contemplating pawning his watch.
他正在考慮抵押他的手錶。
My clothes were excellent, and I had jewellery; but I never even thought of pawning them.
我的衣服是很講究的, 我有珠寶; 但是我從沒想到要把它們當掉.
He took the computer with a view to pawning it.
他帶著電腦目的就是把它當掉.