Pawnbroker
['pɔːnbrəʊkə] or ['pɔnbrokɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security.
編輯:韦德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
手打:丽塔
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A mercenary man to whom money is the one redeeming quality.
雅克校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Would you like to see the pawnbroker himself? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Nothing,' replied the woman; 'it was a pawnbroker's duplicate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Pawnbroker's shop--duplicates here--small sums--mere nothing--all rascals. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- They had a peculiar way of doggedly slinking round the corner, as if they were eternally going to the pawnbroker's. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I had the hint from Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- At the pawnbroker's shop, too, I began to be very well known. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- We have at least an hour before us, he remarked, for they can hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
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