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

• They Treat People As Pawns
  他们把别人都是为自己的棋子
• 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。
• More pawns of the Argent Dawn, no doubt.
  更多银黎明的爪牙，毫无疑问。
• 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。
• And I will not allow middle class families to be treated like pawns on a chessboard.
  我不会允许中产阶级家庭像围棋盘上的兵卒一样被威胁。
• They were just pawns in a big game.
  他们只是一盘棋里的被人利用的棋子。
• 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。
• Did we play to become only pawns in the game?
  难道我们之间越来越远是因为你的恨意？
• Avoid moving pawns in front of your castled king and creating weaknesses there.
  避免把兵移到王车易位后的王前，使那儿成为你的软弱部位。
• We are mere pawns in the struggle for power.
  在权力斗争中我们只是一批小卒。