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

• 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。
• Pawned his wedding ring; bought drugs.
  他当掉结婚戒指去买毒品。
• He pawned the watch Eliza had given him upon his birthday.
  他把意莱莎给他作生日礼物的金表当掉了。
• 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。
• So he pawned the rickshaw for sixty dollars.
  他把车押出去，押了六十块钱。
• "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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.
  诚实一经典当，即永不可赎。