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

• Them like pawns in his master plan to make one of the most.
  并且利用他们来完成他的主要计划，来完成史上最大但的越狱。
• So we are here to serve as pawns in your political game.
  所以我们来这里就是当你政治游戏的旗子？
• They are not pay-at-all-costs types and they will not be used as pawns, he said.
  该咨询师表示：他们不是不惜代价的那种类型，他们不会被用作棋子。
• 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。
• They were just pawns in a big game.
  他们只是一盘棋里的被人利用的棋子。
• This had raised fears the workers were being held as political pawns in a border war that threatens to draw Sudan and South Sudan back into conflict.
  此举曾引起各方担忧，即这批中国工人正在边界战争中被当作了政治棋子，这场战争可能使苏丹和南苏丹之间再度卷入冲突。
• More pawns of the Argent Dawn, no doubt.
  更多银黎明的爪牙，毫无疑问。
• What good is it for you to worry about us pawns?
  你为什么对我们这些小卒这么好？
• 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。
• But rising tensions between the great powers are turning these sometime knights of the corporate world into pawns.
  但是，强国之间紧张局势加剧，却在把有时充当白马骑士的企业变成牺牲品。