| 释义 |
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pawn1 /pɔn/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object]- to deposit (something valuable) as security, as for money borrowed, esp. with a pawnbroker:He pawned his watch to raise the money.
pawn2 /pɔn/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Chessone of eight chess pieces of one color and of the lowest value.
- one used to further another person's purposes:an unwitting pawn in the power game.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pawn1 (pôn),USA pronunciation v.t. - to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, esp. with a pawnbroker:He raised the money by pawning his watch.
- to pledge; stake;
risk:to pawn one's life.
n. - the state of being deposited or held as security, esp. with or by a pawnbroker:jewels in pawn.
- something given or deposited as security, as for money borrowed.
- a person serving as security;
hostage. - the act of pawning.
- WGmc; compare Old Frisian pand, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch pant, German Pfand; (verb, verbal) derivative of the noun, nominal
- Middle French pan; Old French pan(d), pant, apparently
- (noun, nominal) 1490–1500
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged pledge.
pawn2 (pôn),USA pronunciation n. - Chessone of eight men of one color and of the lowest value, usually moved one square at a time vertically and capturing diagonally.
- someone who is used or manipulated to further another person's purposes.
- Anglo-French, equivalent. to Middle French poon, variant of paon, earlier pe(h)on literally, walker; see peon1
- Middle English poun 1325–75
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged puppet, tool, dupe.
|