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 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。
• 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。
• Avoid moving pawns in front of your castled king and creating weaknesses there.
  避免把兵移到王车易位后的王前，使那儿成为你的软弱部位。
• They Treat People As Pawns
  他们把别人都是为自己的棋子
• 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？
• And I will not allow middle class families to be treated like pawns on a chessboard.
  我不会允许中产阶级家庭像围棋盘上的兵卒一样被威胁。
• 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；
• Peasants were the pawns in this war of attrition.
  农夫们成为这场消耗战的被人利用的棋子。
• 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。
• 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？