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A soft, kind way to say someone died. People use it when they talk about family, or when they want to be gentle — at a funeral, in a card, to someone who is sad. In the news and in science, people usually just say "die". No object.
過世、去世
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pass awayverb
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To die.
- After a long battle with cancer, the professor passed away yesterday.
- Her great grandmother passed away yesterday.
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archaicliteraryTo disappear; to cease to be; to be no more.
- Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.
- And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
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obsoleteTo spend; to waste.
- Lest she pass away the flower of her age.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。