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

• 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。
• 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。
• More pawns of the Argent Dawn, no doubt.
  更多银黎明的爪牙，毫无疑问。
• 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。
• 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？
• Their capture has raised concerns that they are being used as political pawns to secure aid and a ceasefire for the troubled region, claims that have been denied by their captors.
  中国工人遭绑架一事引发了各方的担忧，人们担心他们正被当作政治棋子，用来争取援助，并促使麻烦不断的该地区实现停火，但绑架者否认了这些说法。
• Rather than treating non-Western countries as far-flung frontiers or pawns in a trading game, the new corporate rhetoric insists that the BRICs ( and other non-Western countries) are markets in their own rights.
  该行的全新公司套话强调，金砖四国（以及其它非西方国家）本身都是重要市场，不能将非西方国家当作遥远的边疆或商业游戏中的小棋子来对待。
• 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。
• This had raised fears the workers were being held as political pawns in a border war that threatens to draw Sudan and South Sudan back into conflict.
  此举曾引起各方担忧，即这批中国工人正在边界战争中被当作了政治棋子，这场战争可能使苏丹和南苏丹之间再度卷入冲突。
• We are just pawns in her ambitious plans.
  我们只不过是她野心勃勃的计划中的棋子罢了。