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

• 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。
• 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。
• The white pieces have no supporting points and they cannot defend their pawns on the k-side.
  白棋的子力没有支撑，他们无法保护王翼的兵。
• They Treat People As Pawns
  他们把别人都是为自己的棋子
• But rising tensions between the great powers are turning these sometime knights of the corporate world into pawns.
  但是，强国之间紧张局势加剧，却在把有时充当白马骑士的企业变成牺牲品。
• We are just pawns in her ambitious plans.
  我们只不过是她野心勃勃的计划中的棋子罢了。
• 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。
• Some analysts see them as pawns in a much broader political game.
  美国之音记者阿钦从首尔报导说，分析人士把这两名美国记者看作是一场更大的政治博弈中的棋子。
• He must leave behind for pawns, his mother, wife and sons.
  他必须留下母亲、妻子和儿子们作人质。
• 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。