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passing

/pas-ing, pah-sing/US // ˈpæs ɪŋ, ˈpɑ sɪŋ //UK // (ˈpɑːsɪŋ) //

逝者如斯夫,逝去的,逝世,逝者

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : going by or past; elapsing: He was feeling better with each passing day.
    • : brief, fleeting, or fortuitous; transitory: to take a passing fancy to something.
    • : done, given, etc., in passing; cursory: a passing mention.
    • : surpassing, preeminent, or extreme.
    • : indicating satisfactory performance in a course, on a paper, in a test, etc.: a passing grade on a test.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : surpassingly; exceedingly; very.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of a person or thing that passes or causes something to pass.
    • : a means or place of passage.

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Examples

  • Both teams rushed the ball fairly well — the Bucs had 14 carries for 60 yards and the Chiefs had 11 for 57 — but Kansas City got much of that production from quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who has struggled in the passing game.

  • For Green, though, his passing, screening and acumen are critical to opening the door for Curry to carry the scoring load.

  • He was used sparingly by the Raiders in the passing game this season, catching 13 passes for 69 yards and two scores.

  • The Bills struggled when the passing game was thrown off rhythm in 2020.

  • The league is shifting more and more to the passing game, allowing average quarterbacks to tally higher yardage totals just by virtue of suiting up under center.

  • The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.

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

  • While Drake is redefining realness, Iggy is effectively “passing.”

  • Lawmaking by legislatures is also a one-way ratchet—Legislators get credit for passing laws, not pruning them.

  • It was a Republican Congress working with a Democratic president that succeeded in passing the welfare reform bill the first time.

  • At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

  • Again the sallow fingers began to play with the book-covers, passing from one to another, but always slowly and gently.

  • In passing to her own chamber she met the Emperor, and, in the agitation of her maternal fears, told him all that had passed.

  • Passing, now, to the other side of elasticity—i.e., contractility—can we say as much?

  • It may be noted in passing that in the three miracles in Matthew of exorcising a blinding demon the title “Son of David” is used.