pawned

英 [pɔːnd]

美 [pɔːnd]

v.  质押; 典当
pawn的过去分词和过去式

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

• He pawned his watch to buy food until he could get a job.
  他把表当了去买食物；直到他有工作再赎回来。
• "We had one mortgage broker who pawned his wife's jewelry and their Viking oven," says the owner of five pawn shops who takes" everything that can be sold on E-bay "as collateral.
  “我们有一个抵押贷款商他当了妻子的珠宝以及他们的瓦伊金锅炉，”一个拥有五家典当行的老板说，只要在E-bay上卖的东西，都能拿去做抵押。
• He pawned his gold watch to pay the rent.
  他典当了金表用以交租。
• Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.
  诚实一经典当，即永不可赎。
• People have taken out loans to speculate, while a few individuals have even pawned their houses to buy shares.
  人们开始用贷款进行投机，甚至还有一些个人当掉房子来买股票。
• Pawned his wedding ring; bought drugs.
  他当掉结婚戒指去买毒品。
• Like a cash-strapped household, which has pawned all its jewellery, these banks have already pledged away their valuable assets, he claims.
  他表示，正如已典当了全部首饰之后仍然手头拮据的家庭一样，这些银行已把所有值钱的资产都抵押出去了。
• I pawned my watch and cigarette to ensure a happy Christmas.
  我典当了手表和香烟才保证圣诞节过得快乐。
• In a survey of pawnshop customers, Elaine Kempson, from Bristol University's Personal Finance Research Centre, found that over half had pawned possessions to buy daily necessities, including food.
  布尔斯托尔大学个人金融研究中心，ElaineKempson，在对典当行客户中调查发现，超过一半人靠典当购买日常所需，包括食物。
• This Ordinance shall not apply to any loan made before the commencement of this ordinance, or to any goods pawned as security for any such loan.
  本条例不适用于在本条例生效日期前作出的任何贷款，亦不适用于作为任何该等贷款的抵押而当押的物品。