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。
• This Ordinance shall not apply to any loan made before the commencement of this ordinance, or to any goods pawned as security for any such loan.
  本条例不适用于在本条例生效日期前作出的任何贷款，亦不适用于作为任何该等贷款的抵押而当押的物品。
• I pawned my watch and cigarette to ensure a happy Christmas.
  我典当了手表和香烟才保证圣诞节过得快乐。
• 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。
• He pawned his gold watch to pay the rent.
  他典当了金表用以交租。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Of all items pawned, jewellery is the most common.
  在所有的抵押品中，珠宝饰品是最普通的。