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

• 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。
• The allies would fear that they were pawns in a superpower condominium ( New Republic)
  这个联盟担心他们会成为超级大国共管的牺牲品（新共和国）
• More pawns of the Argent Dawn, no doubt.
  更多银黎明的爪牙，毫无疑问。
• 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。
• That partly reflects the presence of savvier investors but is also sectoral. The banks now seeking funds are only just shaking off their heritage as pawns of state lending and need technical expertise.
  这不仅因为投资者更加精明，而且也是由于行业的不同。中国那些正在寻求外资支持的银行，正在摆脱自己作为国家放贷工具的传统，亟需操作诀窍。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• In some cases, script kiddies are themselves pawns of organized crime or other organizations that might be looking to make financial gains or perform terrorist acts.
  在某些情况下，脚本kiddy本身就是有组织的犯罪组织的成员，或其他企图获得金钱收益或进行恐怖活动的组织的成员。
• Peasants were the pawns in this war of attrition.
  农夫们成为这场消耗战的被人利用的棋子。