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

• Did we play to become only pawns in the game?
  难道我们之间越来越远是因为你的恨意？
• Rather than treating non-Western countries as far-flung frontiers or pawns in a trading game, the new corporate rhetoric insists that the BRICs ( and other non-Western countries) are markets in their own rights.
  该行的全新公司套话强调，金砖四国（以及其它非西方国家）本身都是重要市场，不能将非西方国家当作遥远的边疆或商业游戏中的小棋子来对待。
• 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。
• We are mere pawns in the struggle for power.
  在权力斗争中我们只是一批小卒。
• 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。
• 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。
• The white pieces have no supporting points and they cannot defend their pawns on the k-side.
  白棋的子力没有支撑，他们无法保护王翼的兵。
• 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。
• 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。
• We are just pawns in her ambitious plans.
  我们只不过是她野心勃勃的计划中的棋子罢了。