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。
• In1997, the corporation made a breakthrough in the area of finance investment, by investing in the Yitong Pawning Corporation, and becaming one of its largest shareholders.
  公司在金融投资领域也有不俗的业绩：1997年入股易通典当行，成为该行大股东之一。
• As one of the good civil traditions, the pawning right institution embodies the features of the national culture.
  典权制度为民族传统之固有民法资源，体现了民族法律文化的特色。
• Even today Taiwan still follows the pawning right system.
  直至今日，台湾仍在沿用典权制度。
• The pawnage, the unique traditional institution of our country, with very long history, became into being "the legal institution of pawning right" in the modern civil law, under the interaction between tradition, statutes and western legal system.
  典为我国之固有法制度，源远流长，几经变易，在习惯法、国家法与西方法律体系的互动中，最终形成了我们今日民法中的典权法律制度。
• After arriving home in Yangzhou, father paid off debts by selling or pawning things. He also borrowed money to meet the funeral expenses.
  回家变卖典质，父亲还了亏空；又借了钱办了丧事。
• Moreover, while there are cases of people pawning their houses to buy shares, the Chinese middle class has substantial savings to fall back on in the event of a stock market meltdown.
  此外，尽管是存在人们典当住房去买股票的情况，但如果股市崩盘，中国中产阶层有数量可观的储蓄可以依赖。
• This is unfavorable to further transformation and development of the institution of pawning right.
  这不仅使典权立法理由显得单薄，而且不利于典权制度的进一步改造与发展。
• 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？
• 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。