pawn是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 典当, 抵押, 以. . . 担保 n. 小卒, 被人利用的人，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, Captain Boomer, if you are quick enough about it, and have a mind to pawn one arm for the sake of the privilege of giving decent burial to the other, why in that case the arm is yours; only let the whale have another chance at you shortly, that's all."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I've brought something to pawn here,' and he drew out of his pocket an old-fashioned flat silver watch, on the back of which was engraved a globe; the chain was of steel.
-- This friend was Lizaveta Ivanovna, or, as everyone called her, Lizaveta, the younger sister of the old pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna, whom Raskolnikov had visited the previous day to pawn his watch and make his experiment芒聙娄.
-- In the previous winter a student he knew called Pokorev, who had left for Harkov, had chanced in conver-sation to give him the address of Alyona Ivanovna, the old pawnbroker, in case he might want to pawn anything.
-- 'I gave him a note' a rouble that is 'for I thought if he did not pawn it with me he would with another.
-- And if this old woman, the pawnbroker, has been murdered by some-one of a higher class in society for peasants don't pawn gold trinkets how are we to explain this demoralisation of the civilised part of our society?'
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, 'A pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First, I solved two chess problems, and one a very pretty one--a pawn opening.
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