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

• So he pawned the rickshaw for sixty dollars.
  他把车押出去，押了六十块钱。
• Her watch had been pawned a second time, and she had no other means of obtaining money.
  她的表是第二次又当掉了，此外她再没有弄钱的方法。
• 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。
• Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.
  诚实一经典当，即永不可赎。
• Taxpayers must be able to expect the highest level of confidentiality, not have their information pawned off to an independent company.
  纳税人的资讯必须得到高度保密，而不是随随便便就给了某家私人公司。
• 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。
• He pawned the watch Eliza had given him upon his birthday.
  他把意莱莎给他作生日礼物的金表当掉了。
• I'm guessing Rita pawned a gun.
  我猜瑞塔还当了一把枪。
• Pawned his wedding ring; bought drugs.
  他当掉结婚戒指去买毒品。
• As with the jewelry, Hong pawned it for the money used to cure a severely sick worker who had no money for medical treatment.
  至于那个首饰是一个民工得了重病没钱看，洪小玲只好当了首饰来凑钱。