- mass noun the act or process of moving through, under, over, or past something on the way from one place to another经过, 通过：
there were moorings for boats wanting passage through the lock.
欲通过水闸的船只有泊船处可供使用。
- 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。
- 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。
- count noun a journey or ticket for a journey by sea or air（乘船或飞机的）旅行; 船票; 机票：
I booked a passage on the next ship.
我预订了下一艘船的船票。
- Ornithology (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。
- Medicine & Biology /pæˈsɑːʒ/ the process of propagating micro-organisms or cells in a series of host organisms or culture media, so as to maintain them or modify their virulence【医, 生】（微生物的）传代, 继代移种。
- a narrow way, typically having walls either side, allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building; a passageway通道, 走廊, 过道。
- a duct, vessel, or other channel in the body（体内的）管道, 通道。
- mass noun the process of transition from one state to another过渡, 转变：
an allegory on the theme of the passage from ignorance to knowledge.
一则主题有关从蒙昧向知识过渡的寓言。
- 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。
- a short extract from a book or other printed material（书籍或其他印刷品的）一段, 一节：
he picked up the newspaper and read the passage again.
他拿起报纸把这一段又看了一遍。
- 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 drum roll 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。
- 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。
- Medicine & Biology subject (a strain of micro-organisms or cells) to a passage【医, 生】使（微生物）继代移种, 使传代：
each recombinant virus was passaged nine times successively.
每一个重组病毒都被连续传代九次。
passage of（或at）arms
- a fight or dispute交战; 争论。
work one's passage
- work in return for a free place on a voyage打工抵船费：
he worked his passage home as a steward.
他靠在船上当服务员来抵交回家的船费。
- a movement performed in advanced dressage and classical riding, in which the horse executes a slow elevated trot, giving the impression of dancing巴沙基（盛装舞步和古典骑术的高抬腿舞步）。