passage是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a usually long and narrow part of a building with rooms on one or both sides, or a covered path that connects places -- 過道，走廊

  • A narrow passage led directly through the house into the garden. 一條狹窄的通道直接從房子通向花園。

  • The bathroom's on the right at the end of the passage. 浴室在走廊盡頭的右邊。

  • the nasal passages 鼻腔

  • the anal passage 肛道

• 1 a short piece of writing or music that is part of a larger piece of work -- （文章的）段落；（音樂的）樂節

  • Several passages from the book were printed in a national newspaper before it was published. 該書出版前，書中有幾段文字被刊載在一份全國性的報紙上。

• 2 travel, especially as a way of escape -- 旅行；（尤指）轉移

  • The gunman demanded a plane and safe passage to an unspecified destination. 持槍歹徒要求派飛機把他安全送到某個未指明的目的地。

  • He had booked his passage to Rio de Janeiro. 他訂了去里約熱內盧的船票。

• 3 an act of moving through somewhere -- 通過，穿過

  • Many meteors disintegrate during their passage through the atmosphere. 許多流星在穿越大氣層時會分解。

  • The government prohibits the passage of foreign troops and planes across its territory. 該政府禁止外國軍隊和飛機穿越其領土和領空。

• 4 the process of time going past -- 時間的流逝

  • Memories fade with the passage of time. 隨著時間的流逝，記憶會慢慢褪去。

• 5 the official approval of something, especially a new law -- （尤指新法律的）通過

  • He again urged passage of a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion. 他再次敦促通過一項憲法修正案，把人工流產定為非法。