pawns

英 [pɔːnz]

美 [pɔːnz]

n.  (国际象棋的)兵，卒; 被利用的人; 走卒
v.  质押; 典当
pawn的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 典当；抵押
  If youpawnsomething 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。
• （国际象棋中的）兵，卒
  In chess, apawnis the smallest and least valuable playing piece. Each player has eight pawns at the start of the game.
• N-COUNT 马前卒；走卒；爪牙
  If you say that someone is using you as apawn, 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。

双语例句

• They Treat People As Pawns
  他们把别人都是为自己的棋子
• The pawns are getting killed by rising foreclosures in the subprime mortgage market, leaving the better credits exposed.
  次级抵押贷款市场上越来越多抵押品赎回权的丧失，让这些小卒纷纷丧生，留下质量更好的信贷。
• That partly reflects the presence of savvier investors but is also sectoral. The banks now seeking funds are only just shaking off their heritage as pawns of state lending and need technical expertise.
  这不仅因为投资者更加精明，而且也是由于行业的不同。中国那些正在寻求外资支持的银行，正在摆脱自己作为国家放贷工具的传统，亟需操作诀窍。
• Their capture has raised concerns that they are being used as political pawns to secure aid and a ceasefire for the troubled region, claims that have been denied by their captors.
  中国工人遭绑架一事引发了各方的担忧，人们担心他们正被当作政治棋子，用来争取援助，并促使麻烦不断的该地区实现停火，但绑架者否认了这些说法。
• Critics see the courts as too often serving as pawns in interest groups'campaigns of delay and obstructionism, sabotaging the coherence of orderly program administration.
  批评家们认为，法院在利益集团的拖延和阻碍之争以及在破坏有秩序的项目执行的连贯性中，过于经常地起着抵押品的作用。
• A team down20points in the last quarter; down two pawns in the endgame.
  最后一节比赛落后对方20分的球队；
• Chinese people think that the Old China Hand are accomplices, flunkies and pawns of the Japanese imperialism.
  可以说，在中国人的心目中，日本的中国通就是日本帝国主义的帮凶、走狗和马前卒。
• 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 must leave behind for pawns, his mother, wife and sons.
  他必须留下母亲、妻子和儿子们作人质。
• These demands raised concerns the Chinese hostages were being deployed as political pawns in a high-stakes game.
  这些要求引发担忧，即中国人质正在一场高风险的游戏中被当作政治棋子。