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 were just pawns in a big game.
  他们只是一盘棋里的被人利用的棋子。
• 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。
• Them like pawns in his master plan to make one of the most.
  并且利用他们来完成他的主要计划，来完成史上最大但的越狱。
• 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。
• We are mere pawns in the struggle for power.
  在权力斗争中我们只是一批小卒。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。