passage

1. N-COUNT A passage is a long narrow space with walls or fences on both sides, that connects one place or room with another. 过道; 走廊

Harry stepped into the passage and closed the door behind him. 哈里走进走廊，关上他身后的门。

2. N-COUNT A passage in a book, speech, or piece of music is a section of it that you are considering separately from the rest. 章节; 段落; 乐段

He read a passage from Emerson. 他读了一段爱默生的作品。

...the passage in which the author speaks of the world of imagination. …作者谈论幻想世界的那个段落。

3. N-COUNT A passage is a long narrow hole or tube in your body, that air or liquid can pass along. (人体内的) 道

...cells that line the air passages. …沿着通气管排列的细胞。

4. N-COUNT A passage through a crowd of people or things is an empty space that allows you to move through them. 通路

He cleared a passage for himself through the crammed streets. 他在拥挤的大街他为自己清出一条通路。

5. N-UNCOUNT The passage of someone or something is their movement from one place to another. 通过; 经过

Germany had not requested Franco's consent for the passage of troops through Spain. 德国未曾请求弗朗哥同意他们的军队通过西班牙。

6. N-UNCOUNT The passage of someone or something is their progress from one situation or one stage in their development to another. 过渡

...to ease their passage to a market economy. …使他们向市场经济平稳过渡。

7. N-UNCOUNT The passage of a bill is its progress through Congress so that it can become a law. (法案等的) 通过

...a Medicare bill expected to get final passage in Congress today. …一个预期今天在国会得到最后通过的医保法案。

8. N-SING The passage of a period of time is its passing. (时间的) 推移

...an asset that increases in value with the passage of time. …一项随着时间的推移而增值的资产。

9. N-COUNT A passage is a journey by ship. 航程

We'd arrived the day before after a 10-hour passage from Anchorage. 从安克雷奇出发经过10小时航程后，我们于前天到达。

10. N-UNCOUNT If you are granted passage through a country or area of land, you are given permission to go through it. 通行许可

Mr. Thomas would be given safe passage to and from Jaffna. 托马斯先生将会得到往返于贾夫纳的安全通行许可。

11. N a sideways walk in which diagonal pairs of feet are lifted alternately 正步[dressage]

12. V to move or cause to move at a passage 以正步跑