1The act or process of moving through, under, over, or past something on the way from one place to another.

欲通过水闸的船只有泊船处可供使用。

1. 1.1 The act or process of moving forward.
   经过，消逝
   despite the passage of time she still loved him

   尽管时光流逝，她依然爱着他。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • She tapped the shoulder of the person in front of her, asking for passage forward.
   • The money could be recoverable from the officer who was responsible for not having filed the written statement despite passage of so much time.
   • Something blocked his passage, despite his clear view of the dirt, trampled plants, and pebbles of the path outside.
   • There is an anchor locker forward and rigging shrouds are well inboard for easy passage fore and aft.
   • He sneers at her approach and waddles forward to block her passage.
   • Despite this passage of time, the contents of these documents have immense relevance to the current policies of the US government.
   • In our judgment the conclusion reached by the judge, despite the unprecedented passage of time since 1942, was correct.

   Synonyms

   passing, advance, course, march, moving on, flow
2. 1.2 The right to pass through somewhere.
   通过权；通行权
   we obtained a permit for safe passage from the embassy

   我们从大使馆得到了可以安全通过的许可。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • While Gerry was to be congratulated for his thoroughness in preparation, it was perhaps unfortunate that Chic was handed the responsibility of ensuring safe passage for our runners.
   • Conneh was duly freed and ensured his safe passage back to Guinea.
   • Some are kidnapped but most often their parents not only know, but actually pay ‘busones’ or scouts to ensure their safe passage in the hope that they will have a better life.
   • The general manager spent much of yesterday negotiating safe and swift passage out of Turkey but was unable to secure the return of a £40,000 jet pump.
   • He allegedly donated #1m for safe passage to Hong Kong after alleged involvement with Asian drugs ring.
   • The group also demanded a $50m ransom as well as safe passage and the publication of their manifesto by all of the countries whose diplomats had been held.
   • Trangmar's starting point was the Greek myth of Ariadne, who sent a ball of thread twisting through pathways to enable Theseus's safe passage from the Minotaur's labyrinth.
   • It is disturbing, for example, to hear of vehicles stolen from Tanzania easily finding safe passage into Zambia without encountering problems at the border.
   • As is often the way in Vietnam, moving from the raft to the cruiseship was a haphazard, risky venture that relies largely on local know-how rather than any sort of safe passage.
   • But we provide space-based utilities no such security or assurance of safe passage or operation.
   • Where you once safely drove around the dodgy streets of seedy inner-city suburbs, you're now confined to relying on your alertness and stealth to ensure safe passage.
   • Despite a letter of free passage signed by the Hungarian foreign minister, officials at the airport still obstructed Douglas's departure and called the interior ministry.
   • He was on the island of a good king who gave passage to many travelers.
   • Ask yourself if it would have lead to an effective strategy for countering the enemy or ending the safe passage they had through-out Afghanistan?
   • Very little has been done to ensure pedestrians have safe passage over the bridge.
   • Imagine knowing that a close member of your family's life was in danger, selling everything you and your family owned to try to pay for their passage to a safe haven may be the only way of saving their life.
   • In another audacious move he sent envoys to the Crusader leaders in Acre asking for safe passage and the right to purchase supplies.
   • In Naas, the main street will be closed from 10 am to 2 pm and there will be barriers erected to ensure the runners safe passage through the crowd.
   • The advisory assumes significances amid reports that efforts are on to secure the safe passage of three Indians being held hostage there.
   • In this way the Newport fleet connects to an ancient maritime tradition of asking for safe passage and a bountiful catch.

   Synonyms

   safe conduct, entry, admission, access
3. 1.3 A journey or ticket for a journey by sea or air.
   （乘船或飞机的）旅行；船票；机票
   he then booked passage home aboard a Spanish warship

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Way too many hours and credits later, Duvessa had triumphantly booked passage on the small transport, the Star Dancer, to Paranoth.
   • John wanted to set about their adventure as expeditiously as possible and had booked passage on a postal aeroplane traveling to nearby Hog's Creek.
   • I could take on a crew and sail to Canada in my own boat instead of booking passage, or turn into a rover of the sea, going where I please and doing what I like.
   • Luckily, we disembarked there for an afternoon for we had on board several Greek tourists, who also had booked passage for Philae.
   • A place where goods were traded and travellers could buy passage, be it a ferry across the Potomac or transport on to another Sathe port by sea or land.
   • She was so aware of the danger that she'd booked passage in a ship for Australia for herself and me in 1940, meaning to leave me with her family there and return to England.
   • They reached Hong Kong, from where they booked passage to France.
   • Benito finally admits that Vincenzo has booked passage on the train from Charlottesville to Philadelphia the following afternoon.
   • Discounts and upgrades Instead of selling specific staterooms, cruise lines may offer a ‘guarantee’ of passage on a voyage.
   • These generally include full-board accommodation and air passage or road transportation to the islands.
   • He was a legend in his hometown for having worn out many pairs of straw sandals, as he walked hundreds of miles to the port of Yokohama, to book passage on a boat to North America.
   • When the prophet Jonah hears an inner voice calling him to teach in the Assyrian city of Nineveh, he books immediate passage on a boat - going in the other direction.
   • Less desirable boats were offering passage for as little as fifty cents.
   • I am wondering if you are in the travel business and how I can arrange passage on that boat.
   • An accomplished con man, Goddard not only gets the loan of the car, but talks his way into free boat passage to China and hits up fellow competitors for gasoline.
   • Pop described how he escaped Mayo poverty, four years before the Easter Rising, by stowing away on a boat to England, where he planned to earn passage to America.
   • One young Pakistani man told the program he had paid Enniss $10,000 for passage in a boat that sank soon after leaving Indonesia.
   • Delayed only by her trial, she finally booked passage aboard a tanker and sailed alone to Karachi, to join the rest of the family in exile.
   • We both shook our heads, turned right into St. Thomas and booked our own boat's passage to Fort Lauderdale.
   • He himself could not be present at the auction, having already booked passage for England, departing on April 4.

   Synonyms

   voyage, crossing, trip, cruise, sail
4. 1.4Ornithology (of a migrating bird) the action of passing through a place en route to its final destination.
   〔鸟〕（候鸟的）迁徙，迁移
   the species occurs regularly on passage

   这种鸟作有规律的迁徙活动。

   as modifier a passage migrant

   迁徙候鸟。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • These routes used by migratory birds for passage between wintering and breeding ranges are called flyways.
   • For many years, firecrests appeared here as spring and autumn passage migrants.
   • To most observers they are a spring and autumn passage migrant.
   • Continental birds also pass through on passage, particularly on the east coast.
   • Similarly, identifying the correct winter range of birds in South America will allow better study of passage birds.
   • That section also covers breeding, winter, passage migration, or vagrant records for each species as applicable.
   • This development attracts passage migrant waders, nesting lapwing and redshank together with winter wildfowl.
   • Purple sandpipers were not observed during the spring surveys, and those present in August were likely passage migrants from farther north.
   • The Portavogie prawn trawler ‘Sonas’ had a lucky escape recently when she was struck by a coaster while on passage home to Portavogie.
   • Reform act a boost to migratory birds Bill's passage stops protection of harmful species
   • These results support the possibility that migrants with extended stopovers utilize stopover sites differently than most passage migrants.
   • Birds collected in May could have already been on the breeding grounds, so for May only birds collected during passage through Chicago were analyzed.
   • This is a good time of the year to observe passage migrants and returning winter visitors plus our resident wetland birds.
   • Redstarts visit us still with some regularity on their spring and autumn passage migrations, especially along the East Coast.
   • Green, Wood and Common Sandpipers are regular on passage, as are Ospreys.
   • Norfolk birders know the hoopoe as a spring and autumn passage migrant, but only in small numbers.
   • For Veeries, Remsen's approach was to identify winter as the period when no known passage birds were collected from anywhere.
   • But it was as a coastal spring passage migrant that the most spectacular numbers were noted.
   • A small shore bird common, in fact often abundant, on passage and in winter, it breeds in the High Arctic.
   • Poor upstream passage for migrating spawners is the major reason for the decline in diadromous stocks.

2A narrow way, typically having walls on either side, allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building; a passageway.

1. 2.1 A duct, vessel, or other channel in the body.
   （体内的）管道，通道
   Example sentencesExamples

   • We all have a small passage leading from the middle ear to the back of the nose called the eustachian tube, which equalizes the air pressure between the middle ear and the outside world.
   • These potent chemicals dilate blood vessels and constrict bronchial air passages.
   • ‘In this form, the foetal passages, the foramen ovale, and the ductus arteriosus, remain open,’ he wrote.
   • It works in the body specifically to reduce any allergic inflammation of the nasal passages, the bronchial airways and the throat.
   • A psychiatrist ran out and saw that he wasn't breathing, and pulled his jaw forward to free up the air passage.
   • They stretch the skin that makes up that passage in the process and sometimes they tear it badly.
   • This is taken care of by the eustachian tube, a small passage that connects the middle ear to the back of the throat behind the nose.
   • That is to say they contain a network of very small blood vessels or passages.
   • The infection spreads from the nose or throat through the Eustachian tube, a passage between the throat and the middle ear.
   • In the skeletally immature patient, the placement of physeal and epiphyseal drill holes and the passage of tendon grafts through them raises biologic issues.
   • Also, in some persons histamine can close up the bronchial tubes (air passages of the lungs) and make breathing difficult.
   • The pharynx is the garbage dump of the bronchial tubes and nasal passages.
   • They work by opening up the bronchial tubes (air passages of the lungs) and increasing the flow of air through them.
   • A filter of Water energy woven into the nasal passages allowed the channler to catch the scents that different forms of life gave off.
   • Like clogged blood vessels, passages become restricted and are plagued by flaking.
   • These foramina are the passages for the optic nerve (Cranial nerve II) and the eyestalk.
   • When we swallow, the soft palate closes off the nasal passages from the throat to prevent food from entering the nose.
   • The most posterior of these is the fenestra ovalis, while the anterior is the passage for cranial nerve VII.
   • Oya Orisha predominates in the lungs, bronchial passages, and the mucous membranes.
   • Asthma is due to an inflammatory process in the bronchial air passages of the lungs that causes narrowing of the airways and, if untreated, may result in gradual loss of lung function.

   Synonyms

   duct

3The process of transition from one state to another.

一则主题有关从蒙昧向知识过渡的寓言。

1. 3.1 The passing of a bill into law.
   （法案的）通过
   a catalyst for the unrest was the passage of a privatization law

   动乱的起因是通过了一部私有化法律。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • We introduced this Bill and we have continued to press for its passage despite continued resistance and obstruction by the Opposition.
   • It has the support of a number of the key stakeholders, and I look forward to its rapid passage through the House.
   • I look forward to its passage into law in the very near future.
   • From the bill's passage to the second half of 1965, the Civil Rights Movement continued to press American society for changes.
   • In an effort to push forward early passage of the Financial Res-tructuring Fund bill, the Ministry of Finance has asked banks to exert pressure on the legislature.
   • Despite passage in the House, a similar bill faces a hard fight in the Senate.
   • Unfortunately, despite passage of a federal election reform bill, another Florida remains a tragic risk for 2004.
   • Kwok believes passage of the motion will send a strong message that society is concerned about the problem.
   • This bill is a good step in the Government's commitment towards greater energy efficiency and a sustainable energy future, and I look forward to its passage through the House.
   • I look forward to its rapid passage through the House and to the constructive debate that will ensue.
   • The bill is very good, and I look forward to its passage through Parliament.
   • Some civic organizations and academic circles asserted that the previous passage of the particular bills was null and void, as they were voted upon without the required quorum.
   • So the parliamentary passage of the bill holds additional significance in that it may pave the way for the two allies of 50 years to mend their sour relations.
   • Without further ado, I want to say that this is a good bill, and I look forward to its speedy passage.
   • This is considered the final hurdle for the bill's passage, as approval is considered certain in the Senate.
   • It is about getting the structure around early childhood education policy right, and I look forward to its speedy passage through the House.
   • As I outlined, United Future supports the second reading of the bill and its passage to the Committee stage.
   • We are writing to ask you to support the Children's Food Bill in its passage through Parliament.
   • In that case, the bill's passage to a second reading is inevitable.
   • We congratulate the Minister on taking the necessary steps to advance the development of this legislation, and we look forward to assisting its passage in whatever way we can.

   Synonyms

   enactment, passing, ratification, acceptance, approval, adoption, authorization, sanction, validation, legalization, endorsement

4A short extract from a book or other printed material.

他拿起报纸把这一段又看了一遍。

1. 4.1 A section of a piece of music.
   （音乐作品的）段落
   nothing obscures the outlines of an orchestral passage more than a drumroll on an unrelated note

   除了一连串不和谐的鼓声外，没有什么更能使一段管弦乐的演奏要点变得模糊不清。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Several pieces have tricky rhythmic passages that will be fun for students to work out, as in ‘Linus and Lucy’ by Vince Guaraldi.
   • For example, use the thumb to express tenor melodies or in passages requiring maximum power.
   • The ‘music’ includes some passages of surging choruses and fierce chanting, half to my taste, if deformed from the original.
   • Invent exercises from passages in your pieces, he would tell me.
   • This is especially noticeable in full orchestral and choral passages.
   • A few of the later selections present rapid octave passages and optional cadenzas that sound more difficult than they are.
   • The piece concludes with a passage from the Georgian hymn Upalo Ghmerto - lovely but also undocumented - and clanging bells.
   • On top of this was a sweet singing voice that caught the lilting melodies and highlighted the complicated passages of the music.
   • The horn duet in the first movement is one of the most beautiful passages of music ever written by anybody and Steinberg imbues it with a tenderness that is almost poignant.
   • The curtain fell as the orchestra played a transitional passage of music.
   • They become a small Baroque ensemble for recitative passages.
   • Here's a short drum passage and a time-reversed version of the same file, making the same point even more strikingly.
   • Starting off with an elegant andante passage, Navas moved on to the crisp, unmannered race-car speed that he injects into his choreography so well.
   • The second movement leads without pause to the finale by way of a very brief passage based on the opening theme to the entire concerto.
   • The Così arias are stylish, and Mozart's showiest passages are delivered with clean agility and musicality.
   • Breth's tips help students learn principles of effective practice and learn when to apply principles to various passages in the pieces they are playing.
   • Students can slow down the tempo or loop a particular section of music to practice difficult passages.
   • It involves calling on such resources as imagination, knowledge of style, and anticipation of what is likely to come next in a particular passage of music.
   • Her favorites were the soulful climaxes of country-western ballads and the tutti passages of Mozart orchestral works.
   • The B section is a virtual solo for secondo, with primo finishing the melodies with scale passages in octaves.
2. 4.2 An episode in a longer activity such as a sporting event.
   插曲，片段
   a neat passage of midfield play

   一段干净利索的中场表演。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • There followed a passage of play in the Otley half resulting in a missed penalty attempt, closely followed by a successful three points when the full-back was tackled late on a follow up.
   • The next was a great try set up from a solid Ilkley scrum which set up a superb passage of back play in which Hinchliffe was twice involved.
   • In an ensuing passage of play Rooney loses a boot.
   • Not that the Blues are invincible, for there can also be passages of play that show them in a much less flattering light.
   • During this period the Welsh put in some big passages of play, yet the Boks remained composed and unflappable and limited the Six Nations champions to just one try.
   • As the game ebbed and flowed there was little to choose between the sides, but York extended their lead just before half time when a good passage of play involving backs and forwards brought a second try for the speedy Kama.
   • The morning's weather was just as bad as the previous day, and constant heavy showers meant that a mere 22 deliveries were sent down in a further three passages of play before an early lunch.
   • In the next passage of play Clarke made ground from his own half.
   • Then along came one of the most peculiar passages of play you'll see all season.
   • Most of the good work was destructive rather than creative, with the inevitable limitations of both sides in terms of fitness and conditioning preventing any prolonged passages of play.
   • Heath enjoyed their best passage of play early in the second half.
   • He responded with their best passage of play.
   • It was just the tonic the visitors needed and soon afterwards the second row forward finished of a fine passage of play involving forwards and backs with the second try, this time converted by Cooke.
   • Another slick passage of handling, featuring backs and forwards, culminated in Smith sliding over in the corner for No7.
   • They did the spadework for the score in a good passage of support play, Wade arriving on cue to drive over and finish off the movement.
   • Rangers' unease showed in an untidy passage of play which again incurred the wrath of the home support.
   • The scoring system has also changed in recent years to speed up the game and increase the number of exciting passages of play.
   • But once those two had fallen in the same over to Danish Kaneria's leg-spin, it kickstarted a dreadful passage of play for England.
   • A soccer match turns on the outcome of half a dozen passages of play.
   • After working hard all afternoon Keighley let the game slip from their grasp with two passages of poor defence.

5Medicine Biology
The process of propagating microorganisms or cells in a series of host organisms or culture media, so as to maintain them or modify their virulence.

Subject (a strain of microorganisms or cells) to a passage.

每一个重组病毒都被连续传代九次。

A movement performed in advanced dressage and classical riding, in which the horse executes a slow elevated trot, giving the impression of dancing.