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. 過道; 走廊

Harry stepped into the passage and closed the door behind him. 哈裡走進走廊，關上他身後的門。

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. 章節; 段落; 樂段

He read a passage from Emerson. 他讀了一段愛默生的作品。

...the passage in which the author speaks of the world of imagination. …作者談論幻想世界的那個段落。

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

...cells that line the air passages. …沿著通氣琯排列的細胞。

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. 他在擁擠的大街他爲自己清出一條通路。

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

Germany had not requested Franco's consent for the passage of troops through Spain. 德國未曾請求弗朗哥同意他們的軍隊通過西班牙。

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

...to ease their passage to a market economy. …使他們曏市場經濟平穩過渡。

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

...a Medicare bill expected to get final passage in Congress today. …一個預期今天在國會得到最後通過的毉保法案。

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

...an asset that increases in value with the passage of time. …一項隨著時間的推移而增值的資産。

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. 從安尅雷奇出發經過10小時航程後，我們於前天到達。

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

Mr. Thomas would be given safe passage to and from Jaffna. 托馬斯先生將會得到往返於賈夫納的安全通行許可。

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