Picture the bare act of passing through — moving from one end to the other, getting across a place. From that one 'passing' grows both the channel you pass along and the stretch of time or text you move across.
From the word’s history
From Latin passus 'step, pace' → Vulgar Latin passare 'to step, pass' → Old French passer 'to go by' → passage. Built straight on 'a passing', which is exactly the core.
passage 一路來自拉丁文 passus『步、步伐』，經通俗拉丁文 passare『邁步、通過』、古法文 passer『經過』而成。字底就是『一次通過、一次穿過』——正是它的核心畫面。
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原始詞典資料21 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
passagenoun詞源 1/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- passage of scripture
- She struggled to play the difficult passages.
- 2
Part of a path or journey.
- He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
- 3
An incident or episode.
- But there are those who do not feel that the sordid passages of life should be kept off the stage. It is a matter of opinion.
- 4
The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
- The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
- 5
The advance of time.
- The passage of decades has not erased the value of parental monitoring.
- 6
artartsThe use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- 7
A passageway or corridor.
- 8
nauticaltransportA strait or other narrow waterway.
- the Northwest Passage
另外 7 個記錄的用法
- 9
cavinghobbieslifestyleAn underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- 10
The vagina.
- With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]
- This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage.
- 11
The act of passing; movement across or through.
- He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.
- When the scheme is completed, the 99-year-old swing bridge over the canal will be dispensed with as the new bridge will have sufficient height to allow clearance for the passage of canal traffic.
- 12
The right to pass from one place to another.
- 13
A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- 14
bacteriologybiologymicrobiologySerial passage.
- 15
historicaldicegamesA gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
passageverb詞源 1/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
medicinesciencesTo pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
- He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
- After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.
- 2
rareTo make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
- They passaged to America in 1902.
passageadj詞源 1/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
falconryhobbieshuntingOf a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.
- Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.
passagenoun詞源 2/ˈpasɑːʒ/
- 1
dressagehobbieshorsesA movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
passageverb詞源 2/ˈpasɑːʒ/
- 1
dressagehobbieshorsesTo execute a passage movement.
- After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- Passage West
- Ireland
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