pawn

noun

1. borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan

2. (chess) the least powerful piece
moves only forward and captures only to the side
it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank

3. a person used by another to gain an end

Synonym: instrumentcat's-paw

4. an article deposited as security

verb

1. leave as a guarantee in return for money

e.g. pawn your grandfather's gold watch

Synonym: soakhock

1. 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.

e.g. He is contemplating pawning his watch.
他正在考虑抵押他的手表。

2. （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.

3. 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.

pawn在线翻译

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

1. 典当：锁在一起成群飞(flock),飞到外边受蔑视(flout),飞到下边才挣扎(flounder)拍卵石(peddle),入碎石(rubble),写涂鸦(scribble),好跛行(hobble)、鬼借口(quibble)飞来小鹿(fawn)怕典当(pawn),小蛇在前才产卵(spawn)专家爱打人(spank),

2. 士兵：西洋棋系列作品中的士兵(Pawn) 限走一步,只能向前移动. 但第一次移动可移两格,吃棋的方式是只能吃斜方的棋子,但不能跳过棋子. 给一步一脚印,勇往直前的人.