pawn
英 [pɔːn]
美[pɔn]
- n. 典当；抵押物；兵，卒；人质
- vt. 当掉；以……担保
词态变化
复数: pawns;第三人称单数: pawns;过去式: pawned;过去分词: pawned;现在分词: pawning;
助记提示
1. foot, pedal, pioneer => pawn.
2. pioneer => pawn.
3. literally, means etymologically 'footsoldier'.
4. The foot-soldier being the lowest of the low in the army, the term came to be applied to the 'chess piece of lowest rank'.
2. pioneer => pawn.
3. literally, means etymologically 'footsoldier'.
4. The foot-soldier being the lowest of the low in the army, the term came to be applied to the 'chess piece of lowest rank'.
中文词源
pawn 走卒
来自古法语peon,兵，卒，来自拉丁语pedonem,步兵，来自拉丁语pedis,脚，来自PIE*ped,脚，词源同foot,biped.最初用于国际象棋卒，后引申词义走卒。
pawn 质押，典当来自古法语pan,承认，担保，可能来自该词的另一个词义pan,布，一块布，来自拉丁语pannum, 一块布，衣服，词源同pane,panel.其原义可能为以衣服作为质押或在布上写上契约。
英英释意
- 1. an article deposited as security
- 2. a person used by another to gain an end
- 3. (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
- 4. borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan
英文词源
- pawn
- pawn: English has two words pawn. The older, ‘chess piece’ [14], means etymologically ‘footsoldier’. It comes via Anglo-Norman poun from medieval Latin pedō ‘infantryman’, a derivative of Latin pēs ‘foot’ (to which English foot is related). The foot-soldier being the lowest of the low in the army, the term came to be applied to the ‘chess piece of lowest rank’. (English gets pioneer from a derivative of paon, the Old French version of poun.) Pawn ‘pledge as security for a loan’ [15] comes via Old French pan ‘security, pledge’ from a prehistoric West Germanic *panda (source of modern German pfand ‘pledge, security, pawn’). Penny may go back to the same source.
=> foot, pedal, pioneer; penny - pawn (n.1)
- "something left as security," late 15c. (mid-12c. as Anglo-Latin pandum), from Old French pan, pant "pledge, security," also "booty, plunder," perhaps from Frankish or some other Germanic source (compare Old High German pfant, German Pfand, Middle Dutch pant, Old Frisian pand "pledge"), from West Germanic *panda, of unknown origin.
The Old French word is identical to pan "cloth, piece of cloth," from Latin pannum (nominative pannus) "cloth, piece of cloth, garment" and Klein's sources feel this is the source of both the Old French and West Germanic words (perhaps on the notion of cloth used as a medium of exchange). - pawn (n.2)
- lowly chess piece, late 14c., from Anglo-French poun, Old French peon, earlier pehon, from Medieval Latin pedonem "foot soldier," from Late Latin pedonem (nominative pedo) "one going on foot," from Latin pes (genitive pedis) "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). The chess sense was in Old French by 13c. Figurative use, of persons, is from 1580s.
- pawn (v.)
- "to give (something) as security in exchange for," 1560s, from pawn (n.1). Related: Pawned; pawning.
考试真题
- With British food, I think that Hong Kong restaurants are keeping up," says David Tamlyn, the Welsh executive chef at The Pawn in Wan Chai.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
词组搭配
in pawn
(of an object) held as security by a pawnbroker
当掉，押出
all our money was gone and everything was in pawn.
我们所有的钱都没了，每样东西都当掉了。
pawn someone/thing off
pass off someone or something unwanted
把不要的人（或物）处理掉
newly industrialized economies are racing to &B{pawn off} old processes &B{on} poorer countries.
新兴工业化国家竞相把陈旧工艺流程处理给贫穷国家。
实用场景例句
- The hostages are being used as political pawns.
- 人质正被用作政治卒子。
牛津词典
- All her jewellery was in pawn.
- 她把首饰全典当了。
牛津词典
- He is contemplating pawning his watch.
- 他正在考虑抵押他的手表。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- We are just a pawn in the love, the love mercy, powerless.
- 我们只是爱情里的一颗棋子, 受爱情摆布, 无能为力.
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- The old pawn shop is located in the FuQiang Street.
- 清代年间此街有当铺,故富强街旧称典当街.
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- Invade with rook to produce a passed pawn.
- 用王和车进攻,并形成通路兵.
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- I redeemed my watch from the pawn shop.
- 我把手表从当里赎回来了.
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- Alas this being just like the original Mahatma is only a pawn of the false intervention.
- 可是,这个存在体就像最初的Mahatma一样,只是虚假干涉的利用物.
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- I play so with the idea to win a tempo ( pawn, piece , etc. ).
- 我这样走的想法是要赢一步棋 ( 兵, 子 ).
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- He had no way to redeem his furniture out of pawn.
- 他无法赎回典当的家具.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- So he put aside his dignity, they are willing to Wu to become a pawn.
- 于是他放下尊严, 甘愿到吴国去当马前卒.
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- In the chess game, he advanced his pawn forward two spaces.
- 下国际象棋时, 他让兵前进了两格.
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- A chess game being manipulated, pawn it is wrong to have any complaints about the.
- 一盘被操纵的棋局, 棋子是不该有任何怨言的.
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- I play so with the idea to promote the passed pawn.
- 我这样走的想法是想使通路兵升变.
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- A good pawn never shamed his master.
- 典当好,面子保.
《简明英汉词典》
- Encourages the warehouse receipt to pawn, the goods power to pawn financing, development supply chain financing.
- 鼓励仓单质押 、 货权质押融资, 拓展供应链融资.
期刊摘选
- She has redeemed her jewellery from pawn.
- 她从当铺赎回了珠宝.
《简明英汉词典》
- Pawn is a method to obtain the investment through the mortgage or impawn.
- 典当是一种以物品或权利的抵、质押获取融资的方式.
期刊摘选
- He tried by every means to redeem the pawn.
- 他千方百计要赎回典当物.
辞典例句
- Simplify to an ending of rook versus minor piece. Invade with king and rook passed pawn.
- 简化成车对马或象的残局. 用王和车进攻,并形成通路兵.
期刊摘选
- Currently, China's private enterprise financing secured only two line companies and pawn industry.
- 目前我国私人性质的融资性企业只有担保公司和典当行两种行业.
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- I followed him from the junk yard to the pawn shop to the race track.
- 我跟着他到过垃圾场,当铺,还有赛马场.
电影对白
- Don't think you're so big, you're just a pawn in the bosses'hands.
- 不要太自大, 你只是头目手中的一个小卒.
期刊摘选
- She had no way to redeem her furniture out of pawn.
- 她没能从当铺里赎回家具.
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- The quid pro quo Stewart Needham had mentioned , with the girl used as a pawn.
- 这就是斯图尔特·尼达姆所谓的礼尚往来.
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- My watch is at pawn.
- 我的手表已当掉.
辞典例句
- Suppose you find it tomorrow in a pawn shop.
- 如果你明天在街上某家店里看到你的自行车.
电影对白
- This was sacrificing a pawn to save a rook.
- 这是丢卒保车.
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