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

• 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 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）
• That partly reflects the presence of savvier investors but is also sectoral. The banks now seeking funds are only just shaking off their heritage as pawns of state lending and need technical expertise.
  这不仅因为投资者更加精明，而且也是由于行业的不同。中国那些正在寻求外资支持的银行，正在摆脱自己作为国家放贷工具的传统，亟需操作诀窍。
• They Treat People As Pawns
  他们把别人都是为自己的棋子
• We are mere pawns in the struggle for power.
  在权力斗争中我们只是一批小卒。
• Critics see the courts as too often serving as pawns in interest groups'campaigns of delay and obstructionism, sabotaging the coherence of orderly program administration.
  批评家们认为，法院在利益集团的拖延和阻碍之争以及在破坏有秩序的项目执行的连贯性中，过于经常地起着抵押品的作用。
• 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？
• Village nobles, become factory owners, turned into greedy capitalists who saw their workers as mere pawns in a labor contract.
  村贵们变成了工厂主和贪得无厌的资本家。他们招工人当作仅仅是劳工契约中的卒子。
• 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。
• 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。