pawn
pawn 英 [pɔ:n] 美 [pɔn]
n. 典当；抵押物；兵，卒；人质 vt. 当掉；以……担保
进行时:pawning 过去式:pawned 过去分词:pawned 第三人称单数:pawns 名词复数:pawns
- To pawn something is to use it as collateral when you're borrowing money. When you pawn a necklace at a pawn shop, you get cash in exchange for it with the understanding that you can buy it back later.
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- n. 典当；抵押物；兵，卒；人质
- vt. 当掉；以……担保
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1. He had no way to redeem his furniture out of pawn.
他无法赎回典当的家具。
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2. In chess, value is not the pawn, knight, or bishop.
在象棋中，价值不能是卒，骑士，或主教。
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3. A pawn automatically promotes when it reaches the eighth rank.
卒子在到达第八横格时自动升级。
- 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.
- 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- "foot." 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.
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