Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense pawns, present participle pawning, past tense, past participle pawned
1VERB 典当;抵押 If you pawn something 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. 典当;抵押
He is contemplating pawning his watch. [VERB noun]
他正在考虑抵押他的手表。
SYN hock [informal, mainly US], pop [British, informal], stake, mortgage
2N-COUNT (国际象棋中的)兵,卒 In chess, a pawn is the smallest and least valuable playing piece. Each player has eight pawns at the start of the game. (国际象棋中的)兵,卒
3N-COUNT 马前卒;走卒;爪牙 If you say that someone is using you as a pawn, you mean that they are using you for their own advantage. 马前卒;走卒;爪牙
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。
They are the pawns in the power game played by their unseen captors.