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pass off

转手,转移,转告,转发

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v.动词 verb
  1. 1

    • : to be or cause to be accepted or circulated in a false character or identityhe passed the fake diamonds off as real
    • : to come to a gradual end; disappeareventually the pain passed off
    • : to emit as a gas or vapour, or to be emitted in this way
    • : to take placethe meeting passed off without disturbance
    • : to set aside or disregardI managed to pass off his insult

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Examples

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

  • San Francisco was the first city to pass one in 2006; since then, 14 other cities and three states have followed suit.

  • Congress is attempting to pass the buck on federal funding for education.

  • Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  • The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain.

  • A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

  • But men, through neglecting the rules of health, pass quickly to old age, and die before reaching that term.

  • Madame and myself had just been regretting that we should have to pass the evening in this miserable hole of a town.