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

• 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。
• I'm guessing Rita pawned a gun.
  我猜瑞塔还当了一把枪。
• He pawned his watch for 30 yuan.
  他的手表当了30元。
• People have taken out loans to speculate, while a few individuals have even pawned their houses to buy shares.
  人们开始用贷款进行投机，甚至还有一些个人当掉房子来买股票。
• For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the Flora.
  为了做这试验，他把《植物图说》的铜版全押在当铺里。
• 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。
• Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.
  诚实一经典当，即永不可赎。
• Like a cash-strapped household, which has pawned all its jewellery, these banks have already pledged away their valuable assets, he claims.
  他表示，正如已典当了全部首饰之后仍然手头拮据的家庭一样，这些银行已把所有值钱的资产都抵押出去了。
• They certainly pawned off the scuzziest room on you.
  他们真的要让你来担保这间肮脏的房子。
• "We had one mortgage broker who pawned his wife's jewelry and their Viking oven," says the owner of five pawn shops who takes" everything that can be sold on E-bay "as collateral.
  “我们有一个抵押贷款商他当了妻子的珠宝以及他们的瓦伊金锅炉，”一个拥有五家典当行的老板说，只要在E-bay上卖的东西，都能拿去做抵押。