pawnbrokers

pawnbrokers

美 [?p?n?bro?k?r] 　英 [?p??n?br??k?(r)]

• na.當鋪主
• 網絡典當伓介商；典當商；典當仲介商

詞形變化

復數：pawnbrokers  

英漢解釋

na.	1. 當鋪主,典當商

英英解釋

n.	1. someone whose job is to lend money to people in exchange for a valuable object that they can sell if the person does not return the money. The place they work in is called a pawnshop.

例句

To exploit this demand, pawnbrokers are shedding their dingy, Dickensian image.

為了開拓市場，典當商人正在試圖擺脫他們過去陰暗的狄更斯時代的形象。

Signs with three balls hang outside pawnbrokers' shops.

當外面懸掛著三個球的標記。

According to the National Pawnbrokers Association, around 88 per cent of pledged goods are redeemed.

據英國全國典當協會統計，大約88%的典當品都被贖回。

But the National Pawnbrokers Association reckons the number is between 800 and 900, and growing.

英國典當協會統計有800-900家，并呈增長趨勢。

It is hard to say how many pawnbrokers there are because they are lumped with other consumer-credit firms in official statistics.

由于政府并沒有把典當行跟其他消費者信用機構區分開，根本無法精確統計現有典當行的數目。

Metropolitan United Pawnbrokers Protection Society

年與城市典當行保護聯合協會