名词

1. 典当；抵押
If you pawn something 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.

2. （国际象棋中的）兵，卒
In chess, a pawn is the smallest and least valuable playing piece. Each player has eight pawns at the start of the game.

3. 马前卒；走卒；爪牙
If you say that someone is using you as a pawn, you mean that they are using you for their own advantage.

1. borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan

2. (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

3. a person used by another to gain an end

Synonym: instrumentcat's-paw

4. an article deposited as security