1mass noun Strong and barely controllable emotion.

一个极易冲动的人。

1. 1.1in singular A state or outburst of strong emotion.
   激情爆发
   oratory in which he gradually works himself up into a passion

   他渐渐变得慷慨激昂的演讲。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I knew they would get somewhere - the passion in Isaiah's voice when he sang was too strong to let him stay in Carmel for the rest of his life.
   • Given New Yorkers' inclination to declare themselves with intense passion on even the most minor issues, this silence might seem odd.
   • The main problem is that most of the passion takes the form of rage - about the combination of ridiculous workload and unreal expectations.
   • Although not a football fan himself, 44-year-old Len said working on the book gave him a unique insight to the passion and emotions of the game.
   • I stood still at the window, taken aback by the passion of the outburst as much as the completely unexpected words.
   • It would be a shame, this team has worked so hard all year and the passion and raw emotion with which they play is something this competition needs desperately.
   • Instead, the passion and anger that bubbled Dean to the top was focused on something much more fundamental: a basic corruption of government.
   • But having begun for reactionary reasons, the riots quickly showed a passion and fury that suggested deeply felt injustice.
   • With real-life college football starting up recently, I literally get goose bumps listening to the passion and emotion of the crowds.
   • Fine, you stick to your mall rock and corporate emo, but we'll know where the passion and the fury really is.
   • The high emotions of the night didn't compare to the passion displayed in this song, as Oberst lowered himself down on stage and sang from his knees.
   • There is little of the passion that raged and stormed, or of the desperation from which she sought, and appears to have found, a partial release in Roman Catholicism.
   • Yesterday, however, the mayor ventured out of New Orleans to visit a shelter in Shreveport where the tempers are short and the passion's high.
   • Their deaths are spectacles of passivity in the face of an avenging passion that is beyond their emotional range.

   Synonyms

   rage, blind rage, fit of rage/anger/temper, temper, towering rage, outburst of anger, tantrum, fury, frenzy, paroxysm, fever

   British informal paddy

   British informal, dated wax, bate, paddywhack
2. 1.2 Intense sexual love.
   强烈的性爱
   their all-consuming passion for each other

   他们彼此之间炽烈的爱。

   in singular she nurses a passion for Thomas

   她对托马斯怀有强烈的爱。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • One or both of you begins to feel suffocated, and the intense vulnerability of sexual passion that was so easy in the early days becomes impossible.
   • Last month, my husband returned from a business trip in Europe, he was hotter than ever before, with more passion and sexual energy than he'd had for years.
   • What passes without comment, though, what is accepted as a given, are modern notions of romantic love, the truth of sexual passion.
   • The question of sexual passion in late life and what a much older man has to offer a younger woman, apart from the status that traditionally makes him more attractive, is treated very coyly here.
   • Erotic love and sexual passion are not things that simply happen to people; you can learn to create them over your lifetime with the same lover.
   • Victoria and Albert came to love each other with a strong physical passion, yet she hated pregnancy, childbirth, babies, and children.
   • Their relationship was always filled with this intense passion.
   • She is the epitome of what sexual passion is supposed to signify.
   • In 90 minutes of compelling drama, the actors explore the impossible intricacies of love, domesticity and sexual passion.
   • Even if there was no formal ceremony and no icon to celebrate it, they were bound together by something stronger than erotic passion and he claims substantial credit for maintaining her rule.
   • Katerina's soul-destroying loneliness and violent sexual passion is expressed in music of soaring lyricism.
   • Quite the contrary - friendship, love, and sexual passion can all take many forms, and they are likely to be expressed in strong ways in any imaginable society.
   • And if we had to depend on reason and reproductive technology rather than sexual passion to produce the next generation, we'd be in trouble.
   • Perhaps those who still crave sexual passion after 60 didn't get enough of it when they were younger.
   • Although the kiss was brief, she could feel his intense passion.
   • He was a teenager in the grip of a strong, young passion, and Bess was his unattainable beloved.
   • Li looked at her wife, whom he had once loved with such passion, and a pain shot through his ice cold heart.
   • The process of accumulating sounds of words and elements of sexual passion as if they were notes of a recurring tune informs the sequential movement of the whole poem.
   • He watched her face as their passion became more intense.
   • He is as implacable in giving life as he is in taking it; as responsible for the exhilaration of sexual passion as he is for its diminution and loss.

   Synonyms

   love, desire, sexual love, sexual desire, lust, ardour, hunger, yearning, longing, craving, adoration, infatuation, lasciviousness, lustfulness

   French amour fou

   rare concupiscence, nympholepsy
3. 1.3in singular An intense desire or enthusiasm for something.
   极度喜爱，酷爱
   the English have a passion for gardens

   英国人对花园情有独钟。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Two galleries who partnered with auto dealers found that luxury car enthusiasts also have a passion for art
   • Conversing with Iglehart for any length of time, reveals a passion for the people and place of India, a place where he continues to visit on a regular basis.
   • But he came with a wealth of knowledge, an abundance of enthusiasm and a passion for the club where his career had kicked off 30 years earlier.
   • I have the greatest of admiration for people who have a passion for politics.
   • Lancaster is surrounded by wonderful landscapes and the area is full of people with a passion for the outdoors.
   • Leading the service, the reverend described Mr Jackson as ‘the most energetic of people’ with a passion for life.
   • Simply put, we have the right people who have a passion for the music.
   • But behind your reserved exterior lies a dedicated person with a passion for the concrete truth who wants to, in his heart of hearts, help find missing children.
   • Is this true of a young person with a passion for writing books?
   • You meet collectors and curators and people who have a passion for the arts.
   • Now art and green politics are again interwoven in an innovative project, involving hundreds of ordinary people who share a passion for trees and knitting.
   • Woven into the long days of station work for the Angus family and their crew is the camaraderie of shared interests - particularly a passion for beef and a love of horses.
   • Organisations can start by hiring people with a passion for their business.
   • And he's got his horses, which he breeds for racing, and a passion for good wine.
   • The founder of perhaps Scotland's only quality independent wine merchant is expanding the business and needs people with a passion for the grape and the grain.
   • The court was told Mr Jones was a popular young man with a large group of friends who had a passion for music and skateboarding.
   • My teachers are dedicated and professional people who have a passion for the subjects they teach, going beyond the call of duty in the support they provide to help students reach their full potential.
   • Youngsters with a passion for music relished the Devizes Summer School held last week at Southbroom Junior School.
   • Pair an obsession with organization with a passion for how people think and value… and you get information architecture.
   • You really have to have enthusiasm for that, a passion for it.

   Synonyms

   fervour, ardour, intensity, enthusiasm, eagerness, zeal, zealousness, vehemence, vigour, avidity, avidness, feeling, emotion, fire, heat, fieriness, fierceness, excitement, energy, animation, gusto, zest, zestfulness, spirit, spiritedness, commitment, fanaticism, violence

   rare fervency, ardency, passionateness

   enthusiasm, love, mania, keen interest, fascination, obsession, fanaticism, fixation, predilection, compulsion, appetite, relish, partiality, liking, interest, weakness, penchant, addiction, fondness

   informal thing, yen

   rare appetency
4. 1.4count noun A thing arousing great enthusiasm.
   酷爱的事物
   modern furniture is a particular passion of Bill's

   现代家具是比尔的最爱。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Her strong passion for music began with the love of her father's music.
   • They built the pub not on a template drawn-up by a committee of marketing men, but around their own enthusiasms and passions.
   • His tireless passion and strong belief in our campaign has been an ongoing inspiration to all of us.
   • Their connection is that they are friends who share a passion for skateboarding and an appreciation for exploring the road.
   • Himalayan Enfielders, now nearly a year old with about 70 members, is a forum for people who have a passion for biking in Kathmandu.
   • He has a strong incentive: his passion for the mountains, which he shares with others through his tours and photographs.
   • The estate would allow him to satisfy his two strongest passions: golf and fishing.
   • She put aside what she was doing and attended to my problem with enthusiasm, showing a passion for her job.
   • Natural history and sailing were among his passions, and his enthusiasms were enhanced by his travels.
   • He was someone quite different: a true, generous and loyal friend who shared a passion for vintage cars and was about as far from the stereotype of the aristocratic snob as it was possible to get.
   • Mr Morris said beach-fishing which is a much about relaxation than the sport itself, was a passion for many people.
   • In today's world, obsessions become possessions and passions become fashions.
   • She has had strong passion for old cars since childhood.
   • As a Harvard MBA, he has always had very strong passion for teaching and thought effective education could help managers be more successful.
   • They write about their current musical passions and highlight upcoming gigs and events.
   • Trainers are not driven by money, but by a passion for fitness and desire to help others.
   • Painting is something Meng has had an even stronger passion for since childhood which is when he first studied Western painting.
   • He said he was devastated because Levi's and fashion were his passions.
   • This project is quite organic and it really is dependent on who is here and the particular passions and interests.
   • He said St Lucia is a football-oriented country and the people had a passion for the game.

   Synonyms

   obsession, preoccupation, craze, mania, rage, hobby horse

2The suffering and death of Jesus.

对耶稣基督受难的沉思。

1. 2.1 An account of the Passion from any of the Gospels.
   福音书中耶稣基督受难的故事
   Example sentencesExamples

   • There is no single Gospel story of the Passion; there are subtle differences among the four accounts.
   • Did Seneca author the original Passion narrative?
   • The book follows the story of Jesus from the genealogies in Matthew and Luke to the Passion narratives.
   • Thanks to the Ministers of the Word and Eucharist, the Pastoral Team who provided us with powerful symbols of the Passion, death and Resurrection and help in organising the Liturgies.
   • The Liturgy of the Passion of Jesus will be at 3 p.m. in Stradbally and at 4 in the other two churches.
   • But we move from the procession to the long narrative for the day, the full Passion from Matthew.
   • For the second time this week we hear the Passion of Jesus, this time as told by John.
   • It had a discussion of the Passion in the four Gospels, and the complete Gospel account from Mark.
   • As it turned out, the congregation was taking part in a dramatic reading of the Passion narrative.
   • It does not seem to fit the theology of John's Gospel at all, nor does it seem to suit the concerns of John's Passion narrative.
   • But soon enough we hear the Passion narrative as told by St. Luke, and the atmosphere changes.
   • Jesus fulfilled that prophecy in his day, riding into Jerusalem in peace, as the evangelists tell us in the Passion narrative.
   • The second forceful exposition of the way of Jesus, the so-called Passion prediction at 9: 33, is also not understood by the disciples.
   • Luke's Passion narrative forms the mainstay of this suggestion.
   • Against the backdrop of the first century world, Judas is not the enemy of Matthew's Passion narrative; instead, he is one its heroes.
2. 2.2 A musical setting of any of the biblical accounts of the Passion.
   受难曲
   an aria from Bach's St Matthew Passion

   巴赫所作马太福音受难曲中的一支咏叹调。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • With this Naxos release, the Passion is available on a budget-priced CD for the first time.
   • The Westminster Symphonic Choir and the American Boychoir will be performing St. John Passion.
   • In 1827 Mendelssohn and Devrient assembled a small choir in the family's Berlin home to try out some of the Passion's choruses.
   • It opens, in the manner of Bach's Passion, with the Chorus of Exiled Palestinians singing of exile, lands lost and the plight of those with nothing faced against those with the land.
   • Priory has now issued two collections of his anthems, the first celebrating Easter to Trinity, this one devoted mainly to Advent as far as the Passion.
   • Having done all I can with Messiah and Passion performances for this year, I decided to indulge in some reading of glossy magazines.
   • It takes its inspiration from the way Bach and other composers fused music and the Passion story.
   • When performed as Bach clearly intended and obviously felt, the Passion induces the most profound emotions that music can give.
   • Don't forget to tune in to Bach's St John's Passion on Good Friday.
   • In those two hours, the audience, the congregation, the singers, the musicians, re-live, in a powerful way, the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ.
   • The programme looks at the Christian Passion story as perceived by composers through short pieces from the 16th through to the 20th centuries.
   • Bach later incorporated this cantata's beautiful final movement, a concerted setting of the same chorale melody, into his St. John's Passion.
   • York Musical Society presents Bach's St John Passion for the first time since 1995 on Sunday, April 13 at 6.30 pm at York Minster.
   • It was a Hamburg senator that published his Passion oratorio libretto in 1712.
   • Mayr's reflective settings of The Passion and Stabat Mater can also be found on Guild GMCD 7251-2.
   • And how would Bach compose a Passion if he had lived in South America at the end of the twentieth century?
   • Good Friday, April 9, the Young People's Choir will sing Liturgy of the Lord's Passion, and the Easter Vigil will be on Easter Saturday.