pawning

英 [ˈpɔːnɪŋ]

美 [ˈpɔːnɪŋ]

v.  质押; 典当
pawn的现在分词

法律

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

• At first sight the trade seems mundane: there are a few dusty cameras in a display cabinet and a middle-aged woman, talking loudly on a mobile phone, is pawning a necklace with a gold-plated heart.
  乍看上去，这里的生意似乎平平常常：陈列柜中，有几台落满灰尘的照相机，一位中年妇女正在大声打手机，她要当掉一个带镀金心形吊坠的项链。
• After arriving home in Yangzhou, father paid off debts by selling or pawning things.
  回家变卖典当，父亲还亏了空；
• Are we merely pawning off our family obligations to machines, which may be unable to provide the emotional interaction humans seem to need?
  我们是不只是在把我们的家庭义务去推给那些无法提供人类似乎需要情感交流的机器？
• There were legal provisions on the pawning right very early in ancient China. During the Tang dynasty, the pawning right had been shaped, which is followed by later ages.
  我国古代很早就有关于典权的法律规定，唐代时候基本成型，并被后世所沿用。
• In the civil legislation of China, establishment of pawning right, a traditional legal institution, should be retained, and attention should be paid that to avoid repeating the legislation it's unnecessary to initiate real property pledge.
  在我国民事立法中，应保留设置典权这一传统的法律制度，并注意不必再设置不动产质，以免重复立法。
• House Pawning and its Legislative Thinking
  房产典当及其立法思考
• The third part analyzes the reasons of transformation of the ancient Pawning right from the aspects of political, economic, and cultural. And then elaborate emphatically the transformation process, mainly in Legislation.
  第三部分从政治、经济、文化等方面分析了传统典权制度近代转型的原因，接着重点阐述我国传统典权制度的近代转型的过程，主要是对典权制度在立法上的转型进行阐述。
• Whether it's a Tiffany diamond or a three-year-old lawnmower, more and more Americans from all social classes are pawning their possessions to make ends meet.
  不论它是蒂芙妮钻石还是用了三年的割草机，越来越多的来自各个阶层的美国人正在典当他们的财产来维持付生计。
• Real right legislation should further improve the system of usufruct, build pawning right system, complete the system of property guarantee, broaden ways of transaction and financing, and accelerate the economic development in our country.
  物权立法要进一步完善用益物权体系，建立我国的典权制度，完善我国的担保物权体系，增加交易、融资途径，促进经济发展。
• It can satisfy the interests and financial needs, so in social practice, it is impossible to repeal the Pawning right in a short time.
  它能够满足用益需要和资金需要，在社会实践上，短时间内废除典权还是不可能的。