Definition of passing in English:

passing

adjective ˈpɑːsɪŋˈpæsɪŋ

1attributive Going past.
经过的，路过的，过去的
passing cars
驶过的汽车。
Example sentencesExamples
- Pick your stuff up and run to the car, preferably on the passenger's side, putting the car between you and passing traffic.
- Sleeping by day was none the less a poor option, as they were persistent, and not easily convinced of your absence; your heart would race with every passing car or footstep.
- They looked serious: they were touting machine guns and had one of those spiked things you throw across the road when you want to puncture the tyres of passing cars.
- In fact I do forget, but then I see my reflection in a storefront window or in the window of a passing car, and I'm this man holding a box.
- Demonstrators burned tyres and hurled stones at passing police cars.
- The sound of children excitedly running around their school playground and the drone of passing cars are the only noises that disturb the tranquillity of rural life.
- A police spokesman said a collie was struck by a passing car as it escaped the camper van and ran away from the scene of the accident.
- Eventually she managed to flag down a passing car which took her to the Tyrls police station in the city centre.
- The doorman flagged down a passing police car and pointed officers in the direction of Wicker Hill.
- Luckily a passing police car stopped and helped.
- A passing police car was alerted to the incident and arrested the teenager in minutes.
- In another incident an hour later a gunman got out of a blue Rover and fired at a passing car on Wellington Road, Moss Side in what police believe may have been a case of mistaken identity.
- He tailed her for some time before a passing police car scared him off.
- We walked across the bridge, admiring its construction, the passing cars and the East River perilously close.
- It didn't have to compete with the background rumble of traffic, trains and industry, the blaring stereo from the passing car or even the incessant ring of mobile phones.
- Theywere able to flag down a passing police car which escorted them to an area where they could park as Lisa began to deliver the baby.
- They hang in the trees, rest on the wires, run across the lawn in search of crumbs and dive bomb into the bushes when a passing car frightens them.
- Outside Mrs Roughley, who had been joined outside by some regulars, flagged down a passing police car.
- Finally after hours at the knife-edge of death, he fled half-stripped, bleeding and handcuffed into the street, where he flagged down a passing police car.
- A passing police car was flagged down by witnesses and although the car was chased along Northway Lane it managed to escape.
2attributive (of a period of time) going by.
（时间）流逝的，逝去的
she detested him more with every passing second
她对他的讨厌与秒俱增。
Example sentencesExamples
- The numbers are decreasing with every passing year, their writing and painting are gradually fading out, their pages have become fragile and brittle.
- The centrepiece of attraction is that the calendar tells a heart warming story with each passing month of the current year.
- I suspect it was the latter, because more and more people left with each passing inning.
- ‘It's been over a week and every passing day is now critical,’ Bellamy said.
- With every passing year, the number of journalists voting increased.
- The idea that a business must endure and grow stronger with every passing year or quarter seems quite contrary to what the reality of business is.
- So with the passing years some religions died while others gained in strength.
- Each passing year leaves us with fewer veterans of the First World War to describe eye-witness accounts of the horror, bravery and comradeship at the front.
- We do, however, need to address the situation with regards to new entrants into farming as, currently, the average age of our farmers is increasing with each passing year.
- But as the new season moved closer, the stakes were raised with every passing day.
- His stroppy attention-seeking reaches new levels with each passing day, as do his half-hearted demands to leave Celebrity Big Brother.
- He wasn't really bad looking but the passing years of seven decades definitely changed him.
- He described the situation as alarming because, according to experts, the quality of the grain was deteriorating with every passing day.
- They lost comrades-in-arms by the score during the four-year-conflict and the number of survivors has dwindled with every passing anniversary.
- My drinks shelf used to live; the ebb and flow in the bottles pulsating with the passing days.
- The passing summer days are pleasant for the newly married Clym and Eustacia.
- However, it will not steer him wide of the summer scrap heap on to which record numbers of players are being carelessly tossed with each passing year.
- The number of titles available gradually rises with each passing semester.
- Thanks to a summer that threatens to get more scorching with each passing day, the hapless Bangalorean doesn't have any other choice.
- We get so used to actors slapping on make up in order to age, that seeing them acquire genuine signs of the passing years is a shock of realism.
1. 2.1 Carried out quickly and lightly.
  快速的，轻松的
  a passing glance
  瞥了一眼。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Though it merits not even a passing reference in tax law, we all pay pain-added tax on just about everything.
  So it's about three passing references in the teacher's notes?
  Most of the time that will just be a passing phase.
  Guitars stretch and breathe while the bass and drums are left free to wander - typical song writing formula only gets a passing glance.
  A passing reference is made to the landowner's illicit, abusive relationship with Nahila's mother and her sisters.
  It is only a brief passing reference but it contains a little of the evidence which was given in the Family Court on the interlocutory proceedings.
  So one must ask, is it enough for an opposition party to merely make passing reference to the perceived wrong direction of the government of the day?
  The Port Huron Statement made just a passing reference condemning aid to the South Vietnamese dictatorship.
  She thought it was a passing phase but it didn't pass.
  The protesters, who are taking it in turns to sit under an umbrella beside the statue of Winston Churchill, had been attracting no more than a passing glance.
  Hopefully a passing glance would not trigger him to do anything hasty.
  He made only a passing reference, though, to weapons of mass destruction.
  Intrigued by this passing reference I decided to do a little more research into the subject and in this blog I will pass on my findings about these courageous animals.
  News will make only a passing reference (if that) to the bigger picture - and then probably at the end of an item.
  I was aghast and horrified at the extent of human stupidity, and chalked it up to a quickly passing fad that would be soon go the way of foot binding.
  He does make two passing references that provide some fresh meat for those more interested in that than his comprehensive strategy for the paper.
  For a while we chatted about operas we had seen, and so on, the occasional passing reference to life outside opera, nothing special, nothing heavy.
  You probably see passing references to the casualties, like daily box scores-just as brief and much more brutal.
  While everyone knew it was there somewhere in the foothills of life, society, the medical world and the Church seemed to give it no more than a passing glance.
  Caught in a passing glance, Mount Athos rises in the distance and Ithaca is depicted as an alien landscape of jagged rocks before an endless horizon.
  Synonyms
  hasty, rapid, hurried, brief, quick
  cursory, superficial, casual, perfunctory, desultory, incidental, summary, glancing
3attributive (of a resemblance or similarity) slight.
（相似性）微小的
Example sentencesExamples
- This article is interesting, not least because several people have commented that there is more than a passing resemblance between myself and Hels's brother.
- In fact, it bears more than a passing resemblance to CD1 of her Greatest Hits.
- For three years, he has been developing Arnold, a three-wheeled robot which is the size of a small dog, and has a passing resemblance to one too.
- He even hitches up his shirt sleeve before every shot in a routine that bears more than a passing resemblance to that of Woods.
- The event itself was staged in a bullring that gave more than a passing resemblance to the alien mother ship at the end of Close Encounters.
- The young man did bear a passing resemblance to the heir to the throne.
- The hotel is a terracotta-coloured delightful Belle Epoch creation, which has more than a passing resemblance to the Carlton in Cannes, just along the coast.
- Lex is one of three remaining contestants in a reality TV show called Eye Spy, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Big Brother.
- Rule changes have altered amateur boxing so much that to pugilists the sport now bears only a passing resemblance to its professional cousin.
- When the teams formally slip on to the rink the Eagles are greeted like returning legionaries, to whom they bear more than a passing resemblance.
- And yes, with the carefully-coiffured blond hair, tan and surfer's smile, he does bear a passing resemblance to the actor.
- Obviously I'm white but my current prosthesis - and the one now being made for me - bears only a passing resemblance to my actual skin colour.
- Nevertheless, it's pleasing to note the passing similarity of the resulting image with the angular Vorticist art that I was looking at only thirty minutes later.
- What he describes in this tight, staccato prose is a story which bears more than a passing resemblance to The Dirty Dozen.
- The first thing you may notice is that Belfast looks very similar to Glasgow - and it also has more than a passing resemblance to Liverpool.
- His heroes tend to bear more than a passing resemblance to himself.
- It's not just a passing resemblance, either - people really think I am him.
- He bears more than a passing resemblance to a man at a gig a couple of weeks ago.
- In her eyes The Outline bore more than a passing resemblance to ‘The Web of the World's Romance ’, her unpublished history of the world.
- Bizarrely, David cannot say too much about it, because he is bound by a confidentiality clause which bears a passing resemblance to War And Peace.
Synonyms
cursory, perfunctory, casual, sketchy, desultory, unconsidered, token, slapdash, slipshod, offhand, inadequate, imperfect, slight

noun ˈpɑːsɪŋˈpæsɪŋ

mass noun

1The passage of something, especially time.
（尤指时间的）经过；消逝
with the passing of the years she had become a little eccentric
随着岁月的流逝，她变得有点古怪了。
Example sentencesExamples
- The passing of June 16 this year will not however be greeted with the usual eager anticipation within the area's angling community.
- The passing of time was very much unnoticeable for a man with Jun's mindset.
- The passing of time has made it a blurred image of what it was once.
- The passing of this milestone demonstrates the excellent acceptance of the VLT and its instrumentation by the astronomers.
- The passing of time should produce a more balanced appreciation of the heterogeneous and differential impact of the web as a consumer sales channel.
- The hope was great before, but it had shrunk with the passing of time, the changing of boy friends.
- Actually, when you're dead you don't seem to notice the passing of time quite so much; it begins to seem very, very trivial.
- The passing of time has failed to ease the pain for a teenager whose father who was gunned down in a Limerick pub last year.
- The passing of time has not erased old enmities.
- I never noticed the passing of time, until the light coming in the window disappeared, and my stomach started growling.
- The passing of time is of little significance in a world where the future is fully known and accounted for in advance.
- The passing of time has enshrined Keegan's infamous combustion on live TV as the pivotal moment in the 1995-1996 title race.
Synonyms
passage, course, progress, advance, process, flow
2(in sport) the action of passing a ball to another team member.
his play showed good passing and control
他的打法显示出出色的传球和控球能力。
Example sentencesExamples
- For 20 minutes the desired effect was movement and passing and control from United.
- They were strong on the ball, and their passing and movement was top notch.
- The team doesn't have a player who can create his own shot, so it relies on movement and passing to create open looks.
- The Argentinian has scored twice in his six games for United so far, but it's his pinpoint passing and instant control of the ball that have really caught the eye.
- Superior passing and movement allied to a couple of home decisions from the referee meant that England lost control in the first half.
- Handball is all about high speed and precise, quick passing - one of the more high octane sports at the Olympics.
- It was a game which exuded excellent, fast play with good passing, finishing and sporting behaviour.
- He keeps it simple, his movement and passing are excellent, and physically he is as fit as anybody.
- Both sides should take credit for a competitive and high tempo game with plenty of good passing and movement on a surface freshened by light rain.
- Airdrie controlled this match with great passing and ball control, but couldn't find the net.
- Instant ball control and accurate passing in tight spaces, rather than any brute force, are the compulsory requirements for a futsal player.
- The passing from both teams is slick enough, but nobody's creating any chances.
- This motivated team produced excellent early passing and control for a short corner mid-way into the half.
- While they wisely stuck to their game plan of short passing and quick movement, the Hoops reverted to hopeful long balls and aimless passes into space.
- Netball, which she played at county level, is perhaps the most obvious, being a more pedestrian form of rugby with its quick passing, catching and ball movement.
- The pace is too slow, we need a higher tempo, to be slicker and quicker with our passing and movement.
- Yes, their passing and movement was exceptional and we were getting tired just trying to keep up with them.
- Their passing and movement was excellent and Walsh added to his tally on ten minutes following an flowing move through midfield.
- His rebounding and outlet passing should fuel the Rockets' fast break.
- Both teams stressed team play and passing to the open man.
3The end of something.
结束，完结
the passing of the Cold War
Example sentencesExamples
- One major factor has been India's economic reform process, which began with the passing of the Cold War.
- In what ways have you seen the world change - even with the passing of the Cold War?
- Why bother when none would notice the passing of it?
- Even the people at Maverick say they regret the passing of a ‘colourful piece of Calgary's culture.’
- With the passing of the Cold War, humanity's experience of nuclear weapons and their meaning may turn to other regions.
- Death also symbolises endings, so the passing of relationships, jobs and periods of life are reflected upon.
- The passing of mass tourism may be a matter of regret to the local business community, but it has allowed the Broads to survive as a natural habitat.
- The passing of the Soviet Union was merely the stripping away of the latest Russian costume.
- The passing of the post office was a great loss to the community but let us not forget the rambling houses.
- All of which becomes rather puzzling when considering that the spying profession was rendered entirely obsolete with the passing of the Cold War.
- The passing of the Cold War was therefore likely to unveil a new age of power politics, untrammelled by the checks and balances of the Cold War.
- So did the global context, especially the passing of cold-war politics.
1. 3.1euphemistic A person's death.
  her passing will be felt deeply by many people
  她的逝世将会给许多人留下深刻的影响。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His sudden passing caused deep regret in the local area.
  I hope that the New Zealand public will take some notice of the passing of these two people who were men of principle, men we could respect.
  Of those overcome by death and passing to another world, a father cannot hold back his son, nor relatives a relation.
  The passing of Her Majesty, the Queen Mother has finally brought the 20th century to an end.
  The passing of Margaret is also a sad event in that so many of those old families are no longer around anymore and a people and period is fast fading from the landscape.
  The passing of a father is always a cause for deep grief.
  He was a hardworking energetic man who was very much devoted to his family and his sudden passing has caused widespread shock and grief in the community.
  The passing of the greatest in any field is bound to have a big impact, so you can imagine what it was like when the greatest hurling maestro of all time suddenly passed away in his native Cork.
  The passing of a prominent personality within the mineral community always gives us pause and a time of reflection.
  The sad tidings of his sudden passing were received with much regret and neighbours and friends rallied around Patricia and family in their time of grief.
  It is with great sorrow and sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our dear son, husband, father, grandfather and brother, Noël.
  The passing of one so young and gifted has hit the Wellington rugby community hard.
  But that did not prevent rumours that it was due to her unhappiness about the marriage and speculation that her sudden passing had placed a curse on the union.
  The passing of people whom you've known all your days and with whom you worked on many occasions, always comes a jolt.
  The passing of a Pope is always a dramatic moment.
  In her mid-sixties and a frequent visitor to her old home in Parks, her sudden passing is a great loss to her loving family.
  The passing of any significant literary figure is always a sad business; but what to make of the spectacular nature of Green's death?
  The notice recorded the passing of my very first boss.
  The passing of so many from the old guard means that in Australia, they really are getting younger.
  The passing of this Elder was another situation altogether.
  Synonyms
  death, demise, passing away, passing on, end, expiry, loss, expiration, decease
  disappearance, vanishing, dying out
  rare quietus

Phrases

in passing

Briefly and casually.
顺便；随便地；粗略地
the research was mentioned only in passing
那项研究只是顺便提了一下。
Example sentencesExamples
- While the novel makes some room for the landowners the film mentions them only in passing.
- The energy crisis, so crucial to the whole mess, is really mentioned only in passing.
- All were mentioned in passing, but the hottest topic of all was what was happening off the pitch.
- I mentioned it in passing to someone the following day and thought nothing more of it.
- It was mentioned in passing that computers used binary, and programmers would often use octal.
- Sister Briodie mentioned, almost in passing, that I will need front-opening pyjamas.
- I mentioned in passing that this was no great tragedy for me, as indeed it wasn't, but that was all.
- I mentioned that in passing at the time and it elicited a stream of foul-mouthed, intemperate abuse from him.
- Apparently it was mentioned in passing the other night, and the pentagon is being very close-lipped about it.
- Now they mention it in passing and go on to other security issues.
- A couple of months back, I mentioned this blog in passing to someone I know.
- Mention in passing that your beauty salon is really near the office.
- She was sorry that she had even even alerted me to his existence by mentioning him in passing.
- My birthday seemed to be the perfect excuse and I mentioned it in passing to my husband who, in turn, booked a table.
- You make mention in passing of nuclear power, but doesn't the logic of your argument mean you should be a strong supporter of it?
- Morris dancers are only mentioned in passing in the text, in the section on calendar customs, and costume not at all.
- I said that I was going to mention another Act to your Honours and I mention it only in passing.
- So when you phone, you might want to mention in passing that you are also considering a couple of their rivals.
- There was talk of his daughter who was a friend of the abused girl I referred to just now, but she was only mentioned in passing.
- Last week I mentioned in passing that I find shaving to be terribly boring, and a real waste of time.
Synonyms
incidentally, by the by, by the way, as it happens, in the course of conversation, en passant, parenthetically

Derivatives

passingly

adverb

I don't think this adversely affected my ability to judge, given that I ended up comfortably in the middle of a majority decision, but it was something I was more than passingly aware of nonetheless.
Example sentencesExamples
- Talking to her, watching her energy shift and flow, you can feel her hunger for connection, the drive that has made her, as she passingly called herself, ‘a storyteller.’
- By the way, it's been interesting to note in this and other discussions on the web that generally those who are more than passingly familiar with the books are saying pretty much the same thing I am.
- It was ridiculous, in her mind anyway, that she couldn't spend time with her two best friends at the same time because of some stupid comment made passingly in early December.
- As a historian of labour and working class history in the United States, I confess to being only passingly familiar with the development of Australian labour history and at a disadvantage in reading these essays.
- This pathetic record was well known to every American who was passingly acquainted with current events as of September 11, 2001.
- Actually, I'm passingly familiar with some descendants of East India merchants, and such a description wouldn't be too far off the mark.
- In charting the travails of graduate school, Porter passingly notes another important personal development that is intimately connected to his educational life: He devotes only one paragraph to meeting his future wife at Yale.
- This week an Israeli security delegation paid a secretive visit to India which was passingly reported in both Indian and Israeli media unlike earlier occasions when such visits were accorded full glare of media attention.
- I'm only passingly familiar with him, so I wasn't exactly sure what point this made here - is it related to convergence, or just the fact that another scientist supported him?
- This Customer Service Representative was passingly familiar with Masters and Johnson and it helped.
- And in all of this, risk is the key element that is only passingly mentioned in the various stories on this choice.
- For though he appreciated and was more than passingly acquainted with the standard repertory of the concert hall, he did not pretend to be a music critic.
- You argue against yourself, brother, and I find it to be more than passingly foolhardy.
- They'd stay firmly on their little perch, hunker down, and passingly wonder what on earth their children would think of them if they suddenly went off flying about.
- I recall an afternoon in high school in 1980 when, joking with some friends, I passingly slid into such an accent depicting a person in their old age - you know, ‘Sonny’ and such.
- They would sort of passingly mention that I did a very nice job, but then just go to talk about the play.
- He's even courteous a lot of the time - at least when he's not apoplectic with rage - particularly to women, and he's passingly kind to the pet dog.
- Looking down, he passingly wondered if the cut would leave a scar.
- He refers passingly to a period of depression in his second year at university when ‘I lost confidence in myself.’

Rhymes

surpassing

Definition of passing in US English:

passing

adjectiveˈpasiNGˈpæsɪŋ

1Going past.
经过的，路过的，过去的
passing cars
驶过的汽车。
Example sentencesExamples
- In fact I do forget, but then I see my reflection in a storefront window or in the window of a passing car, and I'm this man holding a box.
- In another incident an hour later a gunman got out of a blue Rover and fired at a passing car on Wellington Road, Moss Side in what police believe may have been a case of mistaken identity.
- Outside Mrs Roughley, who had been joined outside by some regulars, flagged down a passing police car.
- A police spokesman said a collie was struck by a passing car as it escaped the camper van and ran away from the scene of the accident.
- They looked serious: they were touting machine guns and had one of those spiked things you throw across the road when you want to puncture the tyres of passing cars.
- Theywere able to flag down a passing police car which escorted them to an area where they could park as Lisa began to deliver the baby.
- Demonstrators burned tyres and hurled stones at passing police cars.
- Finally after hours at the knife-edge of death, he fled half-stripped, bleeding and handcuffed into the street, where he flagged down a passing police car.
- They hang in the trees, rest on the wires, run across the lawn in search of crumbs and dive bomb into the bushes when a passing car frightens them.
- The doorman flagged down a passing police car and pointed officers in the direction of Wicker Hill.
- It didn't have to compete with the background rumble of traffic, trains and industry, the blaring stereo from the passing car or even the incessant ring of mobile phones.
- Eventually she managed to flag down a passing car which took her to the Tyrls police station in the city centre.
- We walked across the bridge, admiring its construction, the passing cars and the East River perilously close.
- Luckily a passing police car stopped and helped.
- A passing police car was flagged down by witnesses and although the car was chased along Northway Lane it managed to escape.
- He tailed her for some time before a passing police car scared him off.
- The sound of children excitedly running around their school playground and the drone of passing cars are the only noises that disturb the tranquillity of rural life.
- Pick your stuff up and run to the car, preferably on the passenger's side, putting the car between you and passing traffic.
- A passing police car was alerted to the incident and arrested the teenager in minutes.
- Sleeping by day was none the less a poor option, as they were persistent, and not easily convinced of your absence; your heart would race with every passing car or footstep.
2(of a period of time) going by.
（时间）流逝的，逝去的
she detested him more with every passing second
她对他的讨厌与秒俱增。
Example sentencesExamples
- Each passing year leaves us with fewer veterans of the First World War to describe eye-witness accounts of the horror, bravery and comradeship at the front.
- His stroppy attention-seeking reaches new levels with each passing day, as do his half-hearted demands to leave Celebrity Big Brother.
- However, it will not steer him wide of the summer scrap heap on to which record numbers of players are being carelessly tossed with each passing year.
- I suspect it was the latter, because more and more people left with each passing inning.
- The numbers are decreasing with every passing year, their writing and painting are gradually fading out, their pages have become fragile and brittle.
- The number of titles available gradually rises with each passing semester.
- ‘It's been over a week and every passing day is now critical,’ Bellamy said.
- My drinks shelf used to live; the ebb and flow in the bottles pulsating with the passing days.
- Thanks to a summer that threatens to get more scorching with each passing day, the hapless Bangalorean doesn't have any other choice.
- We get so used to actors slapping on make up in order to age, that seeing them acquire genuine signs of the passing years is a shock of realism.
- But as the new season moved closer, the stakes were raised with every passing day.
- He described the situation as alarming because, according to experts, the quality of the grain was deteriorating with every passing day.
- We do, however, need to address the situation with regards to new entrants into farming as, currently, the average age of our farmers is increasing with each passing year.
- The centrepiece of attraction is that the calendar tells a heart warming story with each passing month of the current year.
- The passing summer days are pleasant for the newly married Clym and Eustacia.
- The idea that a business must endure and grow stronger with every passing year or quarter seems quite contrary to what the reality of business is.
- With every passing year, the number of journalists voting increased.
- He wasn't really bad looking but the passing years of seven decades definitely changed him.
- They lost comrades-in-arms by the score during the four-year-conflict and the number of survivors has dwindled with every passing anniversary.
- So with the passing years some religions died while others gained in strength.
1. 2.1 Carried out quickly and lightly.
  快速的，轻松的
  a passing glance
  瞥了一眼。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He made only a passing reference, though, to weapons of mass destruction.
  Caught in a passing glance, Mount Athos rises in the distance and Ithaca is depicted as an alien landscape of jagged rocks before an endless horizon.
  It is only a brief passing reference but it contains a little of the evidence which was given in the Family Court on the interlocutory proceedings.
  While everyone knew it was there somewhere in the foothills of life, society, the medical world and the Church seemed to give it no more than a passing glance.
  You probably see passing references to the casualties, like daily box scores-just as brief and much more brutal.
  Hopefully a passing glance would not trigger him to do anything hasty.
  For a while we chatted about operas we had seen, and so on, the occasional passing reference to life outside opera, nothing special, nothing heavy.
  He does make two passing references that provide some fresh meat for those more interested in that than his comprehensive strategy for the paper.
  I was aghast and horrified at the extent of human stupidity, and chalked it up to a quickly passing fad that would be soon go the way of foot binding.
  News will make only a passing reference (if that) to the bigger picture - and then probably at the end of an item.
  The Port Huron Statement made just a passing reference condemning aid to the South Vietnamese dictatorship.
  Intrigued by this passing reference I decided to do a little more research into the subject and in this blog I will pass on my findings about these courageous animals.
  So one must ask, is it enough for an opposition party to merely make passing reference to the perceived wrong direction of the government of the day?
  A passing reference is made to the landowner's illicit, abusive relationship with Nahila's mother and her sisters.
  Guitars stretch and breathe while the bass and drums are left free to wander - typical song writing formula only gets a passing glance.
  Though it merits not even a passing reference in tax law, we all pay pain-added tax on just about everything.
  The protesters, who are taking it in turns to sit under an umbrella beside the statue of Winston Churchill, had been attracting no more than a passing glance.
  Most of the time that will just be a passing phase.
  She thought it was a passing phase but it didn't pass.
  So it's about three passing references in the teacher's notes?
  Synonyms
  hasty, rapid, hurried, brief, quick
3US Meeting or surpassing the requirements of a course or examination.
a passing grade
瞥了一眼。
Example sentencesExamples
- Often curriculum for these courses is tougher than the preparation required for passing entrance examinations.
- He's Harry Potter, and for his fans, until they need a passing grade in that film-study course, that's good enough.
- He got a passing grade, but only after seducing the 55-year old former heavy metal chick that taught the class.
- He calls it his ‘sue the bastards’ class, and students must file a lawsuit to receive a passing grade.
- The team must attend regular training meetings, get passing grades in school and be alcohol and drug-free.
- Now, I have to confess that I'm so pitiful at math that in high school I could barely crack a passing grade in trig.
- As economics, the New Deal deserves a passing grade, but as crisis management it was a huge success.
- By comparison, co-op work reports for arts students are significantly shorter and do not require a technical review for a passing grade.
- I'm sure Mrs. H. would be deeply disappointed in all parties involved and would not issue passing grades but so goes it.
- He received what military analysts consider only a passing grade for his time, 56 points out of a 50 point minimum.
- His grades at the time of the accident suggest otherwise. He switched courses twice and never achieved passing grades.
- No matter what the grade on the second exam, the grade for the course was a 75-a passing grade at the University of Miami.
- By giving a student a passing grade, the teacher is certifying that the student does have some minimal percentage of the terminal repertoire.
- Well, of course, they simply redefine what constitutes a passing grade, and everything's fine.
- I stumbled through the course, got a passing score, and received my license.
- And one of the reasons we gave it today is that at least two of the Fs can be made into passing grades in the course of the next two weeks.
- The overall passing score for the examination is determined by using the mean of the scores from a group of judges.
- Their proposal probably would not have received a passing grade in the course I teach on proposal writing.
- This means that a passing grade can be awarded to someone who learned essentially nothing but tried real hard.
- When it comes to providing basic affordability, we might very well be ahead of the curve, but we're still barely pulling a passing grade.

nounˈpasiNGˈpæsɪŋ

1The passage of something, especially time.
（尤指时间的）经过；消逝
with the passing of the years she had become a little eccentric
随着岁月的流逝，她变得有点古怪了。
Example sentencesExamples
- The passing of time has made it a blurred image of what it was once.
- Actually, when you're dead you don't seem to notice the passing of time quite so much; it begins to seem very, very trivial.
- The passing of time should produce a more balanced appreciation of the heterogeneous and differential impact of the web as a consumer sales channel.
- The passing of time has failed to ease the pain for a teenager whose father who was gunned down in a Limerick pub last year.
- The passing of this milestone demonstrates the excellent acceptance of the VLT and its instrumentation by the astronomers.
- I never noticed the passing of time, until the light coming in the window disappeared, and my stomach started growling.
- The passing of time is of little significance in a world where the future is fully known and accounted for in advance.
- The hope was great before, but it had shrunk with the passing of time, the changing of boy friends.
- The passing of time was very much unnoticeable for a man with Jun's mindset.
- The passing of June 16 this year will not however be greeted with the usual eager anticipation within the area's angling community.
- The passing of time has not erased old enmities.
- The passing of time has enshrined Keegan's infamous combustion on live TV as the pivotal moment in the 1995-1996 title race.
Synonyms
passage, course, progress, advance, process, flow
2The action of throwing, kicking, or hitting a ball or puck to another team member during a sports match.
（体育比赛中的）传球
his play showed good passing and good control
他的打法显示出出色的传球和控球能力。
as modifier a good passing movement
精彩的传球动作。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Argentinian has scored twice in his six games for United so far, but it's his pinpoint passing and instant control of the ball that have really caught the eye.
- Netball, which she played at county level, is perhaps the most obvious, being a more pedestrian form of rugby with its quick passing, catching and ball movement.
- Superior passing and movement allied to a couple of home decisions from the referee meant that England lost control in the first half.
- Both teams stressed team play and passing to the open man.
- This motivated team produced excellent early passing and control for a short corner mid-way into the half.
- Instant ball control and accurate passing in tight spaces, rather than any brute force, are the compulsory requirements for a futsal player.
- Handball is all about high speed and precise, quick passing - one of the more high octane sports at the Olympics.
- Their passing and movement was excellent and Walsh added to his tally on ten minutes following an flowing move through midfield.
- Airdrie controlled this match with great passing and ball control, but couldn't find the net.
- Both sides should take credit for a competitive and high tempo game with plenty of good passing and movement on a surface freshened by light rain.
- The pace is too slow, we need a higher tempo, to be slicker and quicker with our passing and movement.
- They were strong on the ball, and their passing and movement was top notch.
- Yes, their passing and movement was exceptional and we were getting tired just trying to keep up with them.
- For 20 minutes the desired effect was movement and passing and control from United.
- While they wisely stuck to their game plan of short passing and quick movement, the Hoops reverted to hopeful long balls and aimless passes into space.
- He keeps it simple, his movement and passing are excellent, and physically he is as fit as anybody.
- His rebounding and outlet passing should fuel the Rockets' fast break.
- The passing from both teams is slick enough, but nobody's creating any chances.
- The team doesn't have a player who can create his own shot, so it relies on movement and passing to create open looks.
- It was a game which exuded excellent, fast play with good passing, finishing and sporting behaviour.
3The end of something.
结束，完结
the passing of the Cold War and the rise of a new Europe
冷战的结束和一个新欧洲的崛起。
Example sentencesExamples
- Even the people at Maverick say they regret the passing of a ‘colourful piece of Calgary's culture.’
- The passing of the post office was a great loss to the community but let us not forget the rambling houses.
- Death also symbolises endings, so the passing of relationships, jobs and periods of life are reflected upon.
- The passing of mass tourism may be a matter of regret to the local business community, but it has allowed the Broads to survive as a natural habitat.
- All of which becomes rather puzzling when considering that the spying profession was rendered entirely obsolete with the passing of the Cold War.
- With the passing of the Cold War, humanity's experience of nuclear weapons and their meaning may turn to other regions.
- In what ways have you seen the world change - even with the passing of the Cold War?
- One major factor has been India's economic reform process, which began with the passing of the Cold War.
- The passing of the Soviet Union was merely the stripping away of the latest Russian costume.
- Why bother when none would notice the passing of it?
- So did the global context, especially the passing of cold-war politics.
- The passing of the Cold War was therefore likely to unveil a new age of power politics, untrammelled by the checks and balances of the Cold War.
1. 3.1euphemistic A person's death.
  her passing will be felt deeply by many people
  她的逝世将会给许多人留下深刻的影响。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The passing of a prominent personality within the mineral community always gives us pause and a time of reflection.
  Of those overcome by death and passing to another world, a father cannot hold back his son, nor relatives a relation.
  In her mid-sixties and a frequent visitor to her old home in Parks, her sudden passing is a great loss to her loving family.
  It is with great sorrow and sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our dear son, husband, father, grandfather and brother, Noël.
  The passing of one so young and gifted has hit the Wellington rugby community hard.
  But that did not prevent rumours that it was due to her unhappiness about the marriage and speculation that her sudden passing had placed a curse on the union.
  The passing of the greatest in any field is bound to have a big impact, so you can imagine what it was like when the greatest hurling maestro of all time suddenly passed away in his native Cork.
  The passing of this Elder was another situation altogether.
  His sudden passing caused deep regret in the local area.
  The sad tidings of his sudden passing were received with much regret and neighbours and friends rallied around Patricia and family in their time of grief.
  The notice recorded the passing of my very first boss.
  The passing of a father is always a cause for deep grief.
  The passing of Margaret is also a sad event in that so many of those old families are no longer around anymore and a people and period is fast fading from the landscape.
  The passing of so many from the old guard means that in Australia, they really are getting younger.
  The passing of Her Majesty, the Queen Mother has finally brought the 20th century to an end.
  I hope that the New Zealand public will take some notice of the passing of these two people who were men of principle, men we could respect.
  The passing of people whom you've known all your days and with whom you worked on many occasions, always comes a jolt.
  He was a hardworking energetic man who was very much devoted to his family and his sudden passing has caused widespread shock and grief in the community.
  The passing of any significant literary figure is always a sad business; but what to make of the spectacular nature of Green's death?
  The passing of a Pope is always a dramatic moment.
  Synonyms
  death, demise, passing away, passing on, end, expiry, loss, expiration, decease

Phrases

in passing

Briefly and casually.
顺便；随便地；粗略地
the research was mentioned only in passing
那项研究只是顺便提了一下。
Example sentencesExamples
- Apparently it was mentioned in passing the other night, and the pentagon is being very close-lipped about it.
- A couple of months back, I mentioned this blog in passing to someone I know.
- It was mentioned in passing that computers used binary, and programmers would often use octal.
- You make mention in passing of nuclear power, but doesn't the logic of your argument mean you should be a strong supporter of it?
- Morris dancers are only mentioned in passing in the text, in the section on calendar customs, and costume not at all.
- I mentioned in passing that this was no great tragedy for me, as indeed it wasn't, but that was all.
- There was talk of his daughter who was a friend of the abused girl I referred to just now, but she was only mentioned in passing.
- My birthday seemed to be the perfect excuse and I mentioned it in passing to my husband who, in turn, booked a table.
- All were mentioned in passing, but the hottest topic of all was what was happening off the pitch.
- Sister Briodie mentioned, almost in passing, that I will need front-opening pyjamas.
- So when you phone, you might want to mention in passing that you are also considering a couple of their rivals.
- I said that I was going to mention another Act to your Honours and I mention it only in passing.
- Mention in passing that your beauty salon is really near the office.
- I mentioned that in passing at the time and it elicited a stream of foul-mouthed, intemperate abuse from him.
- Last week I mentioned in passing that I find shaving to be terribly boring, and a real waste of time.
- The energy crisis, so crucial to the whole mess, is really mentioned only in passing.
- While the novel makes some room for the landowners the film mentions them only in passing.
- Now they mention it in passing and go on to other security issues.
- She was sorry that she had even even alerted me to his existence by mentioning him in passing.
- I mentioned it in passing to someone the following day and thought nothing more of it.
Synonyms
incidentally, by the by, by the way, as it happens, in the course of conversation, en passant, parenthetically

词汇	passing
释义	Definition of passing in English: passing adjective ˈpɑːsɪŋˈpæsɪŋ 1attributive Going past. 经过的，路过的，过去的 passing cars 驶过的汽车。 Example sentencesExamples Pick your stuff up and run to the car, preferably on the passenger's side, putting the car between you and passing traffic. Sleeping by day was none the less a poor option, as they were persistent, and not easily convinced of your absence; your heart would race with every passing car or footstep. They looked serious: they were touting machine guns and had one of those spiked things you throw across the road when you want to puncture the tyres of passing cars. In fact I do forget, but then I see my reflection in a storefront window or in the window of a passing car, and I'm this man holding a box. Demonstrators burned tyres and hurled stones at passing police cars. The sound of children excitedly running around their school playground and the drone of passing cars are the only noises that disturb the tranquillity of rural life. A police spokesman said a collie was struck by a passing car as it escaped the camper van and ran away from the scene of the accident. Eventually she managed to flag down a passing car which took her to the Tyrls police station in the city centre. The doorman flagged down a passing police car and pointed officers in the direction of Wicker Hill. Luckily a passing police car stopped and helped. A passing police car was alerted to the incident and arrested the teenager in minutes. In another incident an hour later a gunman got out of a blue Rover and fired at a passing car on Wellington Road, Moss Side in what police believe may have been a case of mistaken identity. He tailed her for some time before a passing police car scared him off. We walked across the bridge, admiring its construction, the passing cars and the East River perilously close. It didn't have to compete with the background rumble of traffic, trains and industry, the blaring stereo from the passing car or even the incessant ring of mobile phones. Theywere able to flag down a passing police car which escorted them to an area where they could park as Lisa began to deliver the baby. They hang in the trees, rest on the wires, run across the lawn in search of crumbs and dive bomb into the bushes when a passing car frightens them. Outside Mrs Roughley, who had been joined outside by some regulars, flagged down a passing police car. Finally after hours at the knife-edge of death, he fled half-stripped, bleeding and handcuffed into the street, where he flagged down a passing police car. A passing police car was flagged down by witnesses and although the car was chased along Northway Lane it managed to escape. 2attributive (of a period of time) going by. （时间）流逝的，逝去的 she detested him more with every passing second 她对他的讨厌与秒俱增。 Example sentencesExamples The numbers are decreasing with every passing year, their writing and painting are gradually fading out, their pages have become fragile and brittle. The centrepiece of attraction is that the calendar tells a heart warming story with each passing month of the current year. I suspect it was the latter, because more and more people left with each passing inning. ‘It's been over a week and every passing day is now critical,’ Bellamy said. With every passing year, the number of journalists voting increased. The idea that a business must endure and grow stronger with every passing year or quarter seems quite contrary to what the reality of business is. So with the passing years some religions died while others gained in strength. Each passing year leaves us with fewer veterans of the First World War to describe eye-witness accounts of the horror, bravery and comradeship at the front. We do, however, need to address the situation with regards to new entrants into farming as, currently, the average age of our farmers is increasing with each passing year. But as the new season moved closer, the stakes were raised with every passing day. His stroppy attention-seeking reaches new levels with each passing day, as do his half-hearted demands to leave Celebrity Big Brother. He wasn't really bad looking but the passing years of seven decades definitely changed him. He described the situation as alarming because, according to experts, the quality of the grain was deteriorating with every passing day. They lost comrades-in-arms by the score during the four-year-conflict and the number of survivors has dwindled with every passing anniversary. My drinks shelf used to live; the ebb and flow in the bottles pulsating with the passing days. The passing summer days are pleasant for the newly married Clym and Eustacia. However, it will not steer him wide of the summer scrap heap on to which record numbers of players are being carelessly tossed with each passing year. The number of titles available gradually rises with each passing semester. Thanks to a summer that threatens to get more scorching with each passing day, the hapless Bangalorean doesn't have any other choice. We get so used to actors slapping on make up in order to age, that seeing them acquire genuine signs of the passing years is a shock of realism. 2.1 Carried out quickly and lightly. 快速的，轻松的 a passing glance 瞥了一眼。 Example sentencesExamples Though it merits not even a passing reference in tax law, we all pay pain-added tax on just about everything. So it's about three passing references in the teacher's notes? Most of the time that will just be a passing phase. Guitars stretch and breathe while the bass and drums are left free to wander - typical song writing formula only gets a passing glance. A passing reference is made to the landowner's illicit, abusive relationship with Nahila's mother and her sisters. It is only a brief passing reference but it contains a little of the evidence which was given in the Family Court on the interlocutory proceedings. So one must ask, is it enough for an opposition party to merely make passing reference to the perceived wrong direction of the government of the day? The Port Huron Statement made just a passing reference condemning aid to the South Vietnamese dictatorship. She thought it was a passing phase but it didn't pass. The protesters, who are taking it in turns to sit under an umbrella beside the statue of Winston Churchill, had been attracting no more than a passing glance. Hopefully a passing glance would not trigger him to do anything hasty. He made only a passing reference, though, to weapons of mass destruction. Intrigued by this passing reference I decided to do a little more research into the subject and in this blog I will pass on my findings about these courageous animals. News will make only a passing reference (if that) to the bigger picture - and then probably at the end of an item. I was aghast and horrified at the extent of human stupidity, and chalked it up to a quickly passing fad that would be soon go the way of foot binding. He does make two passing references that provide some fresh meat for those more interested in that than his comprehensive strategy for the paper. For a while we chatted about operas we had seen, and so on, the occasional passing reference to life outside opera, nothing special, nothing heavy. You probably see passing references to the casualties, like daily box scores-just as brief and much more brutal. While everyone knew it was there somewhere in the foothills of life, society, the medical world and the Church seemed to give it no more than a passing glance. Caught in a passing glance, Mount Athos rises in the distance and Ithaca is depicted as an alien landscape of jagged rocks before an endless horizon. Synonyms hasty, rapid, hurried, brief, quick cursory, superficial, casual, perfunctory, desultory, incidental, summary, glancing 3attributive (of a resemblance or similarity) slight. （相似性）微小的 Example sentencesExamples This article is interesting, not least because several people have commented that there is more than a passing resemblance between myself and Hels's brother. In fact, it bears more than a passing resemblance to CD1 of her Greatest Hits. For three years, he has been developing Arnold, a three-wheeled robot which is the size of a small dog, and has a passing resemblance to one too. He even hitches up his shirt sleeve before every shot in a routine that bears more than a passing resemblance to that of Woods. The event itself was staged in a bullring that gave more than a passing resemblance to the alien mother ship at the end of Close Encounters. The young man did bear a passing resemblance to the heir to the throne. The hotel is a terracotta-coloured delightful Belle Epoch creation, which has more than a passing resemblance to the Carlton in Cannes, just along the coast. Lex is one of three remaining contestants in a reality TV show called Eye Spy, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Big Brother. Rule changes have altered amateur boxing so much that to pugilists the sport now bears only a passing resemblance to its professional cousin. When the teams formally slip on to the rink the Eagles are greeted like returning legionaries, to whom they bear more than a passing resemblance. And yes, with the carefully-coiffured blond hair, tan and surfer's smile, he does bear a passing resemblance to the actor. Obviously I'm white but my current prosthesis - and the one now being made for me - bears only a passing resemblance to my actual skin colour. Nevertheless, it's pleasing to note the passing similarity of the resulting image with the angular Vorticist art that I was looking at only thirty minutes later. What he describes in this tight, staccato prose is a story which bears more than a passing resemblance to The Dirty Dozen. The first thing you may notice is that Belfast looks very similar to Glasgow - and it also has more than a passing resemblance to Liverpool. His heroes tend to bear more than a passing resemblance to himself. It's not just a passing resemblance, either - people really think I am him. He bears more than a passing resemblance to a man at a gig a couple of weeks ago. In her eyes The Outline bore more than a passing resemblance to ‘The Web of the World's Romance ’, her unpublished history of the world. Bizarrely, David cannot say too much about it, because he is bound by a confidentiality clause which bears a passing resemblance to War And Peace. Synonyms cursory, perfunctory, casual, sketchy, desultory, unconsidered, token, slapdash, slipshod, offhand, inadequate, imperfect, slight noun ˈpɑːsɪŋˈpæsɪŋ mass noun 1The passage of something, especially time. （尤指时间的）经过；消逝 with the passing of the years she had become a little eccentric 随着岁月的流逝，她变得有点古怪了。 Example sentencesExamples The passing of June 16 this year will not however be greeted with the usual eager anticipation within the area's angling community. The passing of time was very much unnoticeable for a man with Jun's mindset. The passing of time has made it a blurred image of what it was once. The passing of this milestone demonstrates the excellent acceptance of the VLT and its instrumentation by the astronomers. The passing of time should produce a more balanced appreciation of the heterogeneous and differential impact of the web as a consumer sales channel. The hope was great before, but it had shrunk with the passing of time, the changing of boy friends. Actually, when you're dead you don't seem to notice the passing of time quite so much; it begins to seem very, very trivial. The passing of time has failed to ease the pain for a teenager whose father who was gunned down in a Limerick pub last year. The passing of time has not erased old enmities. I never noticed the passing of time, until the light coming in the window disappeared, and my stomach started growling. The passing of time is of little significance in a world where the future is fully known and accounted for in advance. The passing of time has enshrined Keegan's infamous combustion on live TV as the pivotal moment in the 1995-1996 title race. Synonyms passage, course, progress, advance, process, flow 2(in sport) the action of passing a ball to another team member. his play showed good passing and control 他的打法显示出出色的传球和控球能力。 Example sentencesExamples For 20 minutes the desired effect was movement and passing and control from United. They were strong on the ball, and their passing and movement was top notch. The team doesn't have a player who can create his own shot, so it relies on movement and passing to create open looks. The Argentinian has scored twice in his six games for United so far, but it's his pinpoint passing and instant control of the ball that have really caught the eye. Superior passing and movement allied to a couple of home decisions from the referee meant that England lost control in the first half. Handball is all about high speed and precise, quick passing - one of the more high octane sports at the Olympics. It was a game which exuded excellent, fast play with good passing, finishing and sporting behaviour. He keeps it simple, his movement and passing are excellent, and physically he is as fit as anybody. Both sides should take credit for a competitive and high tempo game with plenty of good passing and movement on a surface freshened by light rain. Airdrie controlled this match with great passing and ball control, but couldn't find the net. Instant ball control and accurate passing in tight spaces, rather than any brute force, are the compulsory requirements for a futsal player. The passing from both teams is slick enough, but nobody's creating any chances. This motivated team produced excellent early passing and control for a short corner mid-way into the half. While they wisely stuck to their game plan of short passing and quick movement, the Hoops reverted to hopeful long balls and aimless passes into space. Netball, which she played at county level, is perhaps the most obvious, being a more pedestrian form of rugby with its quick passing, catching and ball movement. The pace is too slow, we need a higher tempo, to be slicker and quicker with our passing and movement. Yes, their passing and movement was exceptional and we were getting tired just trying to keep up with them. Their passing and movement was excellent and Walsh added to his tally on ten minutes following an flowing move through midfield. His rebounding and outlet passing should fuel the Rockets' fast break. Both teams stressed team play and passing to the open man. 3The end of something. 结束，完结 the passing of the Cold War Example sentencesExamples One major factor has been India's economic reform process, which began with the passing of the Cold War. In what ways have you seen the world change - even with the passing of the Cold War? Why bother when none would notice the passing of it? Even the people at Maverick say they regret the passing of a ‘colourful piece of Calgary's culture.’ With the passing of the Cold War, humanity's experience of nuclear weapons and their meaning may turn to other regions. Death also symbolises endings, so the passing of relationships, jobs and periods of life are reflected upon. The passing of mass tourism may be a matter of regret to the local business community, but it has allowed the Broads to survive as a natural habitat. The passing of the Soviet Union was merely the stripping away of the latest Russian costume. The passing of the post office was a great loss to the community but let us not forget the rambling houses. All of which becomes rather puzzling when considering that the spying profession was rendered entirely obsolete with the passing of the Cold War. The passing of the Cold War was therefore likely to unveil a new age of power politics, untrammelled by the checks and balances of the Cold War. So did the global context, especially the passing of cold-war politics. 3.1euphemistic A person's death. her passing will be felt deeply by many people 她的逝世将会给许多人留下深刻的影响。 Example sentencesExamples His sudden passing caused deep regret in the local area. I hope that the New Zealand public will take some notice of the passing of these two people who were men of principle, men we could respect. Of those overcome by death and passing to another world, a father cannot hold back his son, nor relatives a relation. The passing of Her Majesty, the Queen Mother has finally brought the 20th century to an end. The passing of Margaret is also a sad event in that so many of those old families are no longer around anymore and a people and period is fast fading from the landscape. The passing of a father is always a cause for deep grief. He was a hardworking energetic man who was very much devoted to his family and his sudden passing has caused widespread shock and grief in the community. The passing of the greatest in any field is bound to have a big impact, so you can imagine what it was like when the greatest hurling maestro of all time suddenly passed away in his native Cork. The passing of a prominent personality within the mineral community always gives us pause and a time of reflection. The sad tidings of his sudden passing were received with much regret and neighbours and friends rallied around Patricia and family in their time of grief. It is with great sorrow and sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our dear son, husband, father, grandfather and brother, Noël. The passing of one so young and gifted has hit the Wellington rugby community hard. But that did not prevent rumours that it was due to her unhappiness about the marriage and speculation that her sudden passing had placed a curse on the union. The passing of people whom you've known all your days and with whom you worked on many occasions, always comes a jolt. The passing of a Pope is always a dramatic moment. In her mid-sixties and a frequent visitor to her old home in Parks, her sudden passing is a great loss to her loving family. The passing of any significant literary figure is always a sad business; but what to make of the spectacular nature of Green's death? The notice recorded the passing of my very first boss. The passing of so many from the old guard means that in Australia, they really are getting younger. The passing of this Elder was another situation altogether. Synonyms death, demise, passing away, passing on, end, expiry, loss, expiration, decease disappearance, vanishing, dying out rare quietus Phrases in passing Briefly and casually. 顺便；随便地；粗略地 the research was mentioned only in passing 那项研究只是顺便提了一下。 Example sentencesExamples While the novel makes some room for the landowners the film mentions them only in passing. The energy crisis, so crucial to the whole mess, is really mentioned only in passing. All were mentioned in passing, but the hottest topic of all was what was happening off the pitch. I mentioned it in passing to someone the following day and thought nothing more of it. It was mentioned in passing that computers used binary, and programmers would often use octal. Sister Briodie mentioned, almost in passing, that I will need front-opening pyjamas. I mentioned in passing that this was no great tragedy for me, as indeed it wasn't, but that was all. I mentioned that in passing at the time and it elicited a stream of foul-mouthed, intemperate abuse from him. Apparently it was mentioned in passing the other night, and the pentagon is being very close-lipped about it. Now they mention it in passing and go on to other security issues. A couple of months back, I mentioned this blog in passing to someone I know. Mention in passing that your beauty salon is really near the office. She was sorry that she had even even alerted me to his existence by mentioning him in passing. My birthday seemed to be the perfect excuse and I mentioned it in passing to my husband who, in turn, booked a table. You make mention in passing of nuclear power, but doesn't the logic of your argument mean you should be a strong supporter of it? Morris dancers are only mentioned in passing in the text, in the section on calendar customs, and costume not at all. I said that I was going to mention another Act to your Honours and I mention it only in passing. So when you phone, you might want to mention in passing that you are also considering a couple of their rivals. There was talk of his daughter who was a friend of the abused girl I referred to just now, but she was only mentioned in passing. Last week I mentioned in passing that I find shaving to be terribly boring, and a real waste of time. Synonyms incidentally, by the by, by the way, as it happens, in the course of conversation, en passant, parenthetically Derivatives passingly adverb I don't think this adversely affected my ability to judge, given that I ended up comfortably in the middle of a majority decision, but it was something I was more than passingly aware of nonetheless. Example sentencesExamples Talking to her, watching her energy shift and flow, you can feel her hunger for connection, the drive that has made her, as she passingly called herself, ‘a storyteller.’ By the way, it's been interesting to note in this and other discussions on the web that generally those who are more than passingly familiar with the books are saying pretty much the same thing I am. It was ridiculous, in her mind anyway, that she couldn't spend time with her two best friends at the same time because of some stupid comment made passingly in early December. As a historian of labour and working class history in the United States, I confess to being only passingly familiar with the development of Australian labour history and at a disadvantage in reading these essays. This pathetic record was well known to every American who was passingly acquainted with current events as of September 11, 2001. Actually, I'm passingly familiar with some descendants of East India merchants, and such a description wouldn't be too far off the mark. In charting the travails of graduate school, Porter passingly notes another important personal development that is intimately connected to his educational life: He devotes only one paragraph to meeting his future wife at Yale. This week an Israeli security delegation paid a secretive visit to India which was passingly reported in both Indian and Israeli media unlike earlier occasions when such visits were accorded full glare of media attention. I'm only passingly familiar with him, so I wasn't exactly sure what point this made here - is it related to convergence, or just the fact that another scientist supported him? This Customer Service Representative was passingly familiar with Masters and Johnson and it helped. And in all of this, risk is the key element that is only passingly mentioned in the various stories on this choice. For though he appreciated and was more than passingly acquainted with the standard repertory of the concert hall, he did not pretend to be a music critic. You argue against yourself, brother, and I find it to be more than passingly foolhardy. They'd stay firmly on their little perch, hunker down, and passingly wonder what on earth their children would think of them if they suddenly went off flying about. I recall an afternoon in high school in 1980 when, joking with some friends, I passingly slid into such an accent depicting a person in their old age - you know, ‘Sonny’ and such. They would sort of passingly mention that I did a very nice job, but then just go to talk about the play. He's even courteous a lot of the time - at least when he's not apoplectic with rage - particularly to women, and he's passingly kind to the pet dog. Looking down, he passingly wondered if the cut would leave a scar. He refers passingly to a period of depression in his second year at university when ‘I lost confidence in myself.’ Rhymes surpassing adj.1 phr. Definition of passing in US English: passing adjectiveˈpasiNGˈpæsɪŋ 1Going past. 经过的，路过的，过去的 passing cars 驶过的汽车。 Example sentencesExamples In fact I do forget, but then I see my reflection in a storefront window or in the window of a passing car, and I'm this man holding a box. In another incident an hour later a gunman got out of a blue Rover and fired at a passing car on Wellington Road, Moss Side in what police believe may have been a case of mistaken identity. Outside Mrs Roughley, who had been joined outside by some regulars, flagged down a passing police car. A police spokesman said a collie was struck by a passing car as it escaped the camper van and ran away from the scene of the accident. They looked serious: they were touting machine guns and had one of those spiked things you throw across the road when you want to puncture the tyres of passing cars. Theywere able to flag down a passing police car which escorted them to an area where they could park as Lisa began to deliver the baby. Demonstrators burned tyres and hurled stones at passing police cars. Finally after hours at the knife-edge of death, he fled half-stripped, bleeding and handcuffed into the street, where he flagged down a passing police car. They hang in the trees, rest on the wires, run across the lawn in search of crumbs and dive bomb into the bushes when a passing car frightens them. The doorman flagged down a passing police car and pointed officers in the direction of Wicker Hill. It didn't have to compete with the background rumble of traffic, trains and industry, the blaring stereo from the passing car or even the incessant ring of mobile phones. Eventually she managed to flag down a passing car which took her to the Tyrls police station in the city centre. We walked across the bridge, admiring its construction, the passing cars and the East River perilously close. Luckily a passing police car stopped and helped. A passing police car was flagged down by witnesses and although the car was chased along Northway Lane it managed to escape. He tailed her for some time before a passing police car scared him off. The sound of children excitedly running around their school playground and the drone of passing cars are the only noises that disturb the tranquillity of rural life. Pick your stuff up and run to the car, preferably on the passenger's side, putting the car between you and passing traffic. A passing police car was alerted to the incident and arrested the teenager in minutes. Sleeping by day was none the less a poor option, as they were persistent, and not easily convinced of your absence; your heart would race with every passing car or footstep. 2(of a period of time) going by. （时间）流逝的，逝去的 she detested him more with every passing second 她对他的讨厌与秒俱增。 Example sentencesExamples Each passing year leaves us with fewer veterans of the First World War to describe eye-witness accounts of the horror, bravery and comradeship at the front. His stroppy attention-seeking reaches new levels with each passing day, as do his half-hearted demands to leave Celebrity Big Brother. However, it will not steer him wide of the summer scrap heap on to which record numbers of players are being carelessly tossed with each passing year. I suspect it was the latter, because more and more people left with each passing inning. The numbers are decreasing with every passing year, their writing and painting are gradually fading out, their pages have become fragile and brittle. The number of titles available gradually rises with each passing semester. ‘It's been over a week and every passing day is now critical,’ Bellamy said. My drinks shelf used to live; the ebb and flow in the bottles pulsating with the passing days. Thanks to a summer that threatens to get more scorching with each passing day, the hapless Bangalorean doesn't have any other choice. We get so used to actors slapping on make up in order to age, that seeing them acquire genuine signs of the passing years is a shock of realism. But as the new season moved closer, the stakes were raised with every passing day. He described the situation as alarming because, according to experts, the quality of the grain was deteriorating with every passing day. We do, however, need to address the situation with regards to new entrants into farming as, currently, the average age of our farmers is increasing with each passing year. The centrepiece of attraction is that the calendar tells a heart warming story with each passing month of the current year. The passing summer days are pleasant for the newly married Clym and Eustacia. The idea that a business must endure and grow stronger with every passing year or quarter seems quite contrary to what the reality of business is. With every passing year, the number of journalists voting increased. He wasn't really bad looking but the passing years of seven decades definitely changed him. They lost comrades-in-arms by the score during the four-year-conflict and the number of survivors has dwindled with every passing anniversary. So with the passing years some religions died while others gained in strength. 2.1 Carried out quickly and lightly. 快速的，轻松的 a passing glance 瞥了一眼。 Example sentencesExamples He made only a passing reference, though, to weapons of mass destruction. Caught in a passing glance, Mount Athos rises in the distance and Ithaca is depicted as an alien landscape of jagged rocks before an endless horizon. It is only a brief passing reference but it contains a little of the evidence which was given in the Family Court on the interlocutory proceedings. While everyone knew it was there somewhere in the foothills of life, society, the medical world and the Church seemed to give it no more than a passing glance. You probably see passing references to the casualties, like daily box scores-just as brief and much more brutal. Hopefully a passing glance would not trigger him to do anything hasty. For a while we chatted about operas we had seen, and so on, the occasional passing reference to life outside opera, nothing special, nothing heavy. He does make two passing references that provide some fresh meat for those more interested in that than his comprehensive strategy for the paper. I was aghast and horrified at the extent of human stupidity, and chalked it up to a quickly passing fad that would be soon go the way of foot binding. News will make only a passing reference (if that) to the bigger picture - and then probably at the end of an item. The Port Huron Statement made just a passing reference condemning aid to the South Vietnamese dictatorship. Intrigued by this passing reference I decided to do a little more research into the subject and in this blog I will pass on my findings about these courageous animals. So one must ask, is it enough for an opposition party to merely make passing reference to the perceived wrong direction of the government of the day? A passing reference is made to the landowner's illicit, abusive relationship with Nahila's mother and her sisters. Guitars stretch and breathe while the bass and drums are left free to wander - typical song writing formula only gets a passing glance. Though it merits not even a passing reference in tax law, we all pay pain-added tax on just about everything. The protesters, who are taking it in turns to sit under an umbrella beside the statue of Winston Churchill, had been attracting no more than a passing glance. Most of the time that will just be a passing phase. She thought it was a passing phase but it didn't pass. So it's about three passing references in the teacher's notes? Synonyms hasty, rapid, hurried, brief, quick 3US Meeting or surpassing the requirements of a course or examination. a passing grade 瞥了一眼。 Example sentencesExamples Often curriculum for these courses is tougher than the preparation required for passing entrance examinations. He's Harry Potter, and for his fans, until they need a passing grade in that film-study course, that's good enough. He got a passing grade, but only after seducing the 55-year old former heavy metal chick that taught the class. He calls it his ‘sue the bastards’ class, and students must file a lawsuit to receive a passing grade. The team must attend regular training meetings, get passing grades in school and be alcohol and drug-free. Now, I have to confess that I'm so pitiful at math that in high school I could barely crack a passing grade in trig. As economics, the New Deal deserves a passing grade, but as crisis management it was a huge success. By comparison, co-op work reports for arts students are significantly shorter and do not require a technical review for a passing grade. I'm sure Mrs. H. would be deeply disappointed in all parties involved and would not issue passing grades but so goes it. He received what military analysts consider only a passing grade for his time, 56 points out of a 50 point minimum. His grades at the time of the accident suggest otherwise. He switched courses twice and never achieved passing grades. No matter what the grade on the second exam, the grade for the course was a 75-a passing grade at the University of Miami. By giving a student a passing grade, the teacher is certifying that the student does have some minimal percentage of the terminal repertoire. Well, of course, they simply redefine what constitutes a passing grade, and everything's fine. I stumbled through the course, got a passing score, and received my license. And one of the reasons we gave it today is that at least two of the Fs can be made into passing grades in the course of the next two weeks. The overall passing score for the examination is determined by using the mean of the scores from a group of judges. Their proposal probably would not have received a passing grade in the course I teach on proposal writing. This means that a passing grade can be awarded to someone who learned essentially nothing but tried real hard. When it comes to providing basic affordability, we might very well be ahead of the curve, but we're still barely pulling a passing grade. nounˈpasiNGˈpæsɪŋ 1The passage of something, especially time. （尤指时间的）经过；消逝 with the passing of the years she had become a little eccentric 随着岁月的流逝，她变得有点古怪了。 Example sentencesExamples The passing of time has made it a blurred image of what it was once. Actually, when you're dead you don't seem to notice the passing of time quite so much; it begins to seem very, very trivial. The passing of time should produce a more balanced appreciation of the heterogeneous and differential impact of the web as a consumer sales channel. The passing of time has failed to ease the pain for a teenager whose father who was gunned down in a Limerick pub last year. The passing of this milestone demonstrates the excellent acceptance of the VLT and its instrumentation by the astronomers. I never noticed the passing of time, until the light coming in the window disappeared, and my stomach started growling. The passing of time is of little significance in a world where the future is fully known and accounted for in advance. The hope was great before, but it had shrunk with the passing of time, the changing of boy friends. The passing of time was very much unnoticeable for a man with Jun's mindset. The passing of June 16 this year will not however be greeted with the usual eager anticipation within the area's angling community. The passing of time has not erased old enmities. The passing of time has enshrined Keegan's infamous combustion on live TV as the pivotal moment in the 1995-1996 title race. Synonyms passage, course, progress, advance, process, flow 2The action of throwing, kicking, or hitting a ball or puck to another team member during a sports match. （体育比赛中的）传球 his play showed good passing and good control 他的打法显示出出色的传球和控球能力。 as modifier a good passing movement 精彩的传球动作。 Example sentencesExamples The Argentinian has scored twice in his six games for United so far, but it's his pinpoint passing and instant control of the ball that have really caught the eye. Netball, which she played at county level, is perhaps the most obvious, being a more pedestrian form of rugby with its quick passing, catching and ball movement. Superior passing and movement allied to a couple of home decisions from the referee meant that England lost control in the first half. Both teams stressed team play and passing to the open man. This motivated team produced excellent early passing and control for a short corner mid-way into the half. Instant ball control and accurate passing in tight spaces, rather than any brute force, are the compulsory requirements for a futsal player. Handball is all about high speed and precise, quick passing - one of the more high octane sports at the Olympics. Their passing and movement was excellent and Walsh added to his tally on ten minutes following an flowing move through midfield. Airdrie controlled this match with great passing and ball control, but couldn't find the net. Both sides should take credit for a competitive and high tempo game with plenty of good passing and movement on a surface freshened by light rain. The pace is too slow, we need a higher tempo, to be slicker and quicker with our passing and movement. They were strong on the ball, and their passing and movement was top notch. Yes, their passing and movement was exceptional and we were getting tired just trying to keep up with them. For 20 minutes the desired effect was movement and passing and control from United. While they wisely stuck to their game plan of short passing and quick movement, the Hoops reverted to hopeful long balls and aimless passes into space. He keeps it simple, his movement and passing are excellent, and physically he is as fit as anybody. His rebounding and outlet passing should fuel the Rockets' fast break. The passing from both teams is slick enough, but nobody's creating any chances. The team doesn't have a player who can create his own shot, so it relies on movement and passing to create open looks. It was a game which exuded excellent, fast play with good passing, finishing and sporting behaviour. 3The end of something. 结束，完结 the passing of the Cold War and the rise of a new Europe 冷战的结束和一个新欧洲的崛起。 Example sentencesExamples Even the people at Maverick say they regret the passing of a ‘colourful piece of Calgary's culture.’ The passing of the post office was a great loss to the community but let us not forget the rambling houses. Death also symbolises endings, so the passing of relationships, jobs and periods of life are reflected upon. The passing of mass tourism may be a matter of regret to the local business community, but it has allowed the Broads to survive as a natural habitat. All of which becomes rather puzzling when considering that the spying profession was rendered entirely obsolete with the passing of the Cold War. With the passing of the Cold War, humanity's experience of nuclear weapons and their meaning may turn to other regions. In what ways have you seen the world change - even with the passing of the Cold War? One major factor has been India's economic reform process, which began with the passing of the Cold War. The passing of the Soviet Union was merely the stripping away of the latest Russian costume. Why bother when none would notice the passing of it? So did the global context, especially the passing of cold-war politics. The passing of the Cold War was therefore likely to unveil a new age of power politics, untrammelled by the checks and balances of the Cold War. 3.1euphemistic A person's death. her passing will be felt deeply by many people 她的逝世将会给许多人留下深刻的影响。 Example sentencesExamples The passing of a prominent personality within the mineral community always gives us pause and a time of reflection. Of those overcome by death and passing to another world, a father cannot hold back his son, nor relatives a relation. In her mid-sixties and a frequent visitor to her old home in Parks, her sudden passing is a great loss to her loving family. It is with great sorrow and sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our dear son, husband, father, grandfather and brother, Noël. The passing of one so young and gifted has hit the Wellington rugby community hard. But that did not prevent rumours that it was due to her unhappiness about the marriage and speculation that her sudden passing had placed a curse on the union. The passing of the greatest in any field is bound to have a big impact, so you can imagine what it was like when the greatest hurling maestro of all time suddenly passed away in his native Cork. The passing of this Elder was another situation altogether. His sudden passing caused deep regret in the local area. The sad tidings of his sudden passing were received with much regret and neighbours and friends rallied around Patricia and family in their time of grief. The notice recorded the passing of my very first boss. The passing of a father is always a cause for deep grief. The passing of Margaret is also a sad event in that so many of those old families are no longer around anymore and a people and period is fast fading from the landscape. The passing of so many from the old guard means that in Australia, they really are getting younger. The passing of Her Majesty, the Queen Mother has finally brought the 20th century to an end. I hope that the New Zealand public will take some notice of the passing of these two people who were men of principle, men we could respect. The passing of people whom you've known all your days and with whom you worked on many occasions, always comes a jolt. He was a hardworking energetic man who was very much devoted to his family and his sudden passing has caused widespread shock and grief in the community. The passing of any significant literary figure is always a sad business; but what to make of the spectacular nature of Green's death? The passing of a Pope is always a dramatic moment. Synonyms death, demise, passing away, passing on, end, expiry, loss, expiration, decease Phrases in passing Briefly and casually. 顺便；随便地；粗略地 the research was mentioned only in passing 那项研究只是顺便提了一下。 Example sentencesExamples Apparently it was mentioned in passing the other night, and the pentagon is being very close-lipped about it. A couple of months back, I mentioned this blog in passing to someone I know. It was mentioned in passing that computers used binary, and programmers would often use octal. You make mention in passing of nuclear power, but doesn't the logic of your argument mean you should be a strong supporter of it? Morris dancers are only mentioned in passing in the text, in the section on calendar customs, and costume not at all. I mentioned in passing that this was no great tragedy for me, as indeed it wasn't, but that was all. There was talk of his daughter who was a friend of the abused girl I referred to just now, but she was only mentioned in passing. My birthday seemed to be the perfect excuse and I mentioned it in passing to my husband who, in turn, booked a table. All were mentioned in passing, but the hottest topic of all was what was happening off the pitch. Sister Briodie mentioned, almost in passing, that I will need front-opening pyjamas. So when you phone, you might want to mention in passing that you are also considering a couple of their rivals. I said that I was going to mention another Act to your Honours and I mention it only in passing. Mention in passing that your beauty salon is really near the office. I mentioned that in passing at the time and it elicited a stream of foul-mouthed, intemperate abuse from him. Last week I mentioned in passing that I find shaving to be terribly boring, and a real waste of time. The energy crisis, so crucial to the whole mess, is really mentioned only in passing. While the novel makes some room for the landowners the film mentions them only in passing. Now they mention it in passing and go on to other security issues. She was sorry that she had even even alerted me to his existence by mentioning him in passing. I mentioned it in passing to someone the following day and thought nothing more of it. Synonyms incidentally, by the by, by the way, as it happens, in the course of conversation, en passant, parenthetically adj.1 phr.
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