英语词汇“pawn”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

noun | verb

pawnpawn1 /pɔn/ noun [countable]

ETYMOLOGYpawn¹

Origin: 1300-1400 Anglo-French poun, from Medieval Latin pedo soldier

1one of the eight smallest and least valuable pieces which each player has in the game of chess2someone who is used by a more powerful person or group and has no control of the situation: pawn in The children became pawns in their parents’ divorce battle.

noun | verb

pawnpawn2 verb [transitive]

ETYMOLOGYpawn²

Origin: 1500-1600 pawn condition of having been pawned (15-21 centuries), from Old French pan

VERB TABLE

pawn

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	pawn
	he, she, it	pawns
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	pawned
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have pawned
	he, she, it	has pawned
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had pawned
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will pawn
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have pawned

Continuous Form
Present	I	am pawning
	he, she, it	is pawning
	you, we, they	are pawning
Past	I, he, she, it	was pawning
	you, we, they	were pawning
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been pawning
	he, she, it	has been pawning
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been pawning
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be pawning
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been pawning

to leave something valuable with a pawnbroker in order to borrow money from them SYN hockpawn something ↔ off phrasal verb1pawn something ↔ off on somebody informal to persuade someone to buy or accept something that you want to get rid of, especially something of low quality: They tried to pawn off out-of-date medicines on Third World countries.2pawn somebody/something ↔ off as something to present something in a dishonest way: The program pawns off gossip and trivia as real news.