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

• 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。
• 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。
• According to Youth. cn, one student from Jinan pawned almost every item he had that was worth anything-from a laptop to stylish jeans-just to get enough cash for dates.
  据中青网报道，为了筹钱约会，一名来自济南的学生当掉了自己所有值钱的东西，从笔记本到时尚牛仔裤。
• 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。
• As with the jewelry, Hong pawned it for the money used to cure a severely sick worker who had no money for medical treatment.
  至于那个首饰是一个民工得了重病没钱看，洪小玲只好当了首饰来凑钱。
• 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。
• 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。
• He pawned his gold watch to pay the rent.
  他典当了金表用以交租。
• 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。