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

• Their capture has raised concerns that they are being used as political pawns to secure aid and a ceasefire for the troubled region, claims that have been denied by their captors.
  中国工人遭绑架一事引发了各方的担忧，人们担心他们正被当作政治棋子，用来争取援助，并促使麻烦不断的该地区实现停火，但绑架者否认了这些说法。
• 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？
• 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。
• The allies would fear that they were pawns in a superpower condominium ( New Republic)
  这个联盟担心他们会成为超级大国共管的牺牲品（新共和国）
• 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？
• In some cases, script kiddies are themselves pawns of organized crime or other organizations that might be looking to make financial gains or perform terrorist acts.
  在某些情况下，脚本kiddy本身就是有组织的犯罪组织的成员，或其他企图获得金钱收益或进行恐怖活动的组织的成员。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。