pass off

英語

動詞

pass off (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 passes off，現在分詞 passing off，一般過去時及過去分詞 passed off)

1. 〈不及物〉 發生，進行

   The millennium passed off without any disasters.

   這一千年沒有發生什麼災難就過去了。

2. 〈及物〉 把……交給……
   • 2015. Off the Rim. Sonya Spreen Bates.

     He turned and passed it off to number 23, who dribbled a couple of times and passed it to number 61.

3. (及物、反身) 歪曲

   He tried to pass off the imitation Rolex as genuine.

   他嘗試把這隻仿冒的勞力士說成是真貨。

   This goat has been passed off as a lamb.

   這隻山羊被假冒成羔羊。

4. （逐漸）減少
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 55

     I have had a few aches and pains lately and a little fever, but that's nothing; it will pass off.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16

     I know, too, that ever since he lost his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he’s been a kind of moody—desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off.