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单词 passage
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passagenoun

uk/ˈpæs.ɪdʒ/us/ˈpæs.ɪdʒ/

passage noun (CONNECTING WAY)

B2 [ C ] also passageway, a usually long and narrow part of a building with rooms on one or both sides, or a covered path that connects places:

A narrow passage led directly through the house into the garden.
The bathroom's on the right at the end of the passage.

[ C ] a hollow part of the body through which something goes:

the nasal passages
the anal passage

More examples

  • subterranean passages
  • an underground passage
  • The tomb was honeycombed with passages and chambers.
  • A narrow passage leads from one building to the other.
  • The president escaped through a secret passage underneath the parliament building.

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Parts of buildings: passages & entrance areas

  • arcade
  • archway
  • concourse
  • corridor
  • desk
  • entryway
  • foyer
  • gangway!
  • gateway
  • hall
  • hallway
  • lobby
  • marquee
  • patio
  • porch
  • portico
  • reception
  • terrace
  • vestibule

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Substances & structures in the body

passage noun (PART)

B2 [ C ] a short piece of writing or music that is part of a larger piece of work:

Several passages from the book were printed in a national newspaper before it was published.

More examples

  • This passage of text has been excerpted from her latest novel.
  • It is a difficult passage, but just translate it as best you can.
  • This passage doesn't make any sense.
  • The book contains numerous plagiarized passages.
  • Kathy read a short passage from the Bible.

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Musical pieces

  • arrangement
  • bolero
  • bossa nova
  • Britannia
  • cantata
  • chorus
  • fantasia
  • melody
  • nocturne
  • octet
  • opus
  • playlist
  • reel
  • sextet
  • signature tune
  • solo
  • song form
  • string quartet
  • trio
  • tune

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Pieces of writing

passage noun (TRAVEL)

[ U ] formal travel, especially as a way of escape:

The gunman demanded a plane and safe passage to an unspecified destination.

[ S ] old-fashioned a journey, especially over the sea:

He had booked his passage to Rio de Janeiro.
work your passage old-fashioned

to do work on a ship during your trip instead of paying for a ticket

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Navigation & shipwrecks

  • astrolabe
  • buoy
  • channel
  • chart
  • circumnavigate
  • lane
  • lighthouse
  • nautical mile
  • navigable
  • navigation
  • navigational
  • navigator
  • quadrant
  • refloat
  • sea lane
  • shipwreck
  • sonar
  • sound
  • the doldrums
  • wreck

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Travelling
Journeys
Sailing & boating

passage noun (MOVEMENT)

C2 [ U ] an act of moving through somewhere:

Many meteors disintegrate during their passage through the atmosphere.
The government prohibits the passage of foreign troops and planes across its territory.

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Movement

  • ambulatory
  • be treading water idiom
  • catalepsy
  • comings
  • get
  • gravitation
  • immobile
  • immobilize
  • inert
  • mobile
  • motile
  • motility
  • motion
  • movable
  • moving
  • pull
  • pull up short idiom
  • steady
  • still
  • tread

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passage noun (TIME)

the passage of time literary

the process of time going past:

Memories fade with the passage of time.

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Spending time & time passing

  • all the time in the world idiom
  • Anno Domini
  • course
  • elapse
  • employ
  • fall
  • fall away
  • misspend
  • pass
  • passing
  • run
  • sand
  • slip away
  • spread sth over sth
  • the sands of time are running out idiom
  • tick
  • tick away/by
  • time and tide wait for no man idiom
  • while
  • while sth away

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passage noun (LAW)

[ U ] formal the official approval of something, especially a new law:

He again urged passage of a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.

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UK politics: legislation & law-making

  • abolish
  • abrogate
  • amendment
  • assemblyman
  • assemblywoman
  • constitution
  • constitutional
  • enforce
  • jurisprudence
  • lawmaker
  • legalize
  • legislate
  • legislative
  • legitimate
  • prohibition
  • proscribe
  • quash
  • repeal
  • rescind
  • rider

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