(noun.) borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan.

(noun.) (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank.

(noun.) an article deposited as security.

(verb.) leave as a guarantee in return for money; 'pawn your grandfather's gold watch'.

布倫達編輯

• Yo' see, Boucher's been pulled down wi' his childer,--and her being so cranky, and a' they could pawn has gone this last twelvemonth. 伊麗莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
• He pish'd and psha'd in a fury--told me not to be such a fool as to pawn--and said he would see whether he could lend me the money. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• The pawns were little green and white men, with real swords and shields; the knights were on horseback, the castles were on the backs of elephants. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• Tell Sergeant Cuff, he rejoined, that I say the discovery of the truth depends on the discovery of the person who pawned the Diamond. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• She took to drinking, left off working, sold the furniture, pawned the clothes, and played old Gooseberry. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
• There was no market for his wares, and after months of actual destitution he pawned the model of his sewing-machine and even his patent papers in order to secure funds to pay his passage home. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• What comes of it doesn't matter to you and me except as it may help us to lay our hands on the mysterious Somebody who pawned the Diamond. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• The man who had pawned his goods in London, and had reached New York with less than a dollar in his pocket, had an income of $200,000 a year. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• There is a chance--to say the least--that the person who pawned it, may be prepared to redeem it when the year's time has expired. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• If you will have it, Rachel--scandal says that the Moonstone is in pledge to Mr. Luker, and that I am the man who has pawned it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.

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