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pawn

/pawn/US // pɔn //UK // (pɔːn) //

典当,当,典当品,典当业

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch.
    • : to pledge; stake; risk: to pawn one's life.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state of being deposited or held as security, especially with or by a pawnbroker: jewels in pawn.
    • : something given or deposited as security, as for money borrowed.
    • : a person serving as security; hostage.
    • : the act of pawning.

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Examples

  • He is a possible solution to the Nationals’ need for middle-of-the-order offense — and not just another pawn in Pittsburgh’s low-cost rebuild.

  • Many pawn businesses are multigenerational not only in ownership but in customers.

  • Perry Lewin has been in the pawn industry for 28 years, but he’s never quite seen a year like this one.

  • Continuing to prop him up in the media as a political pawn leaves them unable to do so.

  • Some scientists fear that the vaccine could become a pawn in American election politics and have cautioned against distributing an untested injection.

  • They were getting more imaginative,” a pawn shop owner thinks of his addict customers in “Back of Beyond.

  • “Congo was clearly just a pawn in the global chessboard of West vs. East,” Holm says.

  • Barely Legal Pawn stars the duo as unscrupulous, possibly deranged pawnshop employees.

  • With Suzanne, Vee saw someone who could be a pawn in her chess game.

  • Yet, she is still very much a pawn in the system—her body is actively sold to the highest bidder.

  • She never dreamed that she herself was a pawn in the game that was intended to bring Nana Sahib to Delhi.

  • Rat this pawn of the Eye may have been, but even a cornered rat will fight with the courage of a lion.

  • Afterwards she married one of the most noted scamps in Paris, who wanted a pretty wife as a pawn in some game of his.

  • To be checkmated by an 'errant' pawn in the very middle of the board is a most ignominious way of losing the game.

  • In default of the usual bazaars OLeary had returned with the spoils of half a dozen pawn-shops.