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

• So we are here to serve as pawns in your political game.
  所以我们来这里就是当你政治游戏的旗子？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A team down20points in the last quarter; down two pawns in the endgame.
  最后一节比赛落后对方20分的球队；
• They are not pay-at-all-costs types and they will not be used as pawns, he said.
  该咨询师表示：他们不是不惜代价的那种类型，他们不会被用作棋子。
• Village nobles, become factory owners, turned into greedy capitalists who saw their workers as mere pawns in a labor contract.
  村贵们变成了工厂主和贪得无厌的资本家。他们招工人当作仅仅是劳工契约中的卒子。
• 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。
• They Treat People As Pawns
  他们把别人都是为自己的棋子