喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the bare act of passing through — moving from one end to the other, getting across a place. From that one 'passing' grows both the channel you pass along and the stretch of time or text you move across.

可以想成：passage 的核心比較像『穿過』這個動作本身——從一頭移動到另一頭、通過某個地方。由這個『穿過』，一邊…更多收起可以想成：passage 的核心比較像『穿過』這個動作本身——從一頭移動到另一頭、通過某個地方。由這個『穿過』，一邊長出『供人穿過的那條通道』，一邊長出『一段被穿越過去的時間或文字』。

From the word’s history

From Latin passus 'step, pace' → Vulgar Latin passare 'to step, pass' → Old French passer 'to go by' → passage. Built straight on 'a passing', which is exactly the core.

passage 一路來自拉丁文 passus『步、步伐』，經通俗拉丁文 passare『邁步、通過』、古法文 passer『經過』而成。字底就是『一次通過、一次穿過』——正是它的核心畫面。

etymonline.com/word/passage ; etymonline.com/word/pass

From the picture

供人穿過的通道

把『穿過』這個動作凝固成一個地方——一條讓人或東西得以穿過去的通道。

corridor · noun · B2

A long, narrow space with walls on both sides that joins one room or place to another.

走廊 / 通道

一段被穿越的時間或文字

這一支把『穿過』從空間換成時間和篇幅——你不是穿過一個地方，而是穿過一段時光、或讀過書裡的一截。

excerpt · noun · B2

Any short stretch of writing, speech, or music that belongs to a longer work.

段落

Also in this word

passing through · noun · B2

The act of people or vehicles moving through, past, or across a place.

通行 / 通過

passing of a law · noun · B2

The process of a new law being discussed and then accepted by a parliament or congress.

（法案的）通過

sea voyage · noun · B2

A journey on a ship from one place to another (an older use).

船程 / 航程

原始詞典資料21 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。

passagenoun詞源 1/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.

    • passage of scripture
    • She struggled to play the difficult passages.
  • 2

    Part of a path or journey.

    • He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
  • 3

    An incident or episode.

    • But there are those who do not feel that the sordid passages of life should be kept off the stage. It is a matter of opinion.
  • 4

    The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.

    • The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
  • 5

    The advance of time.

    • The passage of decades has not erased the value of parental monitoring.
  • 6

    artartsThe use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.

  • 7

    A passageway or corridor.

  • 8

    nauticaltransportA strait or other narrow waterway.

    • the Northwest Passage
另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    cavinghobbieslifestyleAn underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.

  • 10

    The vagina.

    • With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]
    • This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage.
  • 11

    The act of passing; movement across or through.

    • He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.
    • When the scheme is completed, the 99-year-old swing bridge over the canal will be dispensed with as the new bridge will have sufficient height to allow clearance for the passage of canal traffic.
  • 12

    The right to pass from one place to another.

  • 13

    A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.

  • 14

    bacteriologybiologymicrobiologySerial passage.

  • 15

    historicaldicegamesA gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.

passageverb詞源 1/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    medicinesciencesTo pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.

    • He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
    • After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.
  • 2

    rareTo make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.

    • They passaged to America in 1902.

passageadj詞源 1/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    falconryhobbieshuntingOf a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.

    • Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.

passagenoun詞源 2/ˈpasɑːʒ/

  • 1

    dressagehobbieshorsesA movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.

passageverb詞源 2/ˈpasɑːʒ/

  • 1

    dressagehobbieshorsesTo execute a passage movement.

    • After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash […]

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。