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

• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Marriage by pawning and hiring is the marital form that reflected the concentration of chaos and contradiction.
  典雇婚，恰是这一乱象中矛盾最为集中的婚姻形态。
• 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。
• The pawning right of China and the secured use and pledge of use of Germany, and the real property pledge of Germany and Italy are the different legal institutions in form, but identical in their basic functions.
  我国的典权与德国的担保用益或利用质押，以及法国与意大利的不动产质，是形式不同，但功能基本一致的法律制度。
• The author agrees that the pawning right system should be established in the law of rights over things in China and states the corresponding reasons in this paper.
  笔者同意肯定说，认为我国物权法中应规定典权制度，并阐述了相应的理由。
• 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。
• 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。