1. in passing : 顺便;
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1. 短暂的;一时的;转瞬即逝的
A passing fashion, activity, or feeling lasts for only a short period of time and is not worth taking very seriously.
2. 结束;消失
The passing of something such as a time or system is the fact of its coming to an end.
3. 逝世;去世;过世
You can refer to someone's death as their passing, if you want to avoid using the word 'death' because you think it might upset or offend people.
4. (时光的)流逝,推移
The passing of a period of time is the fact or process of its going by.
5. 顺便的;顺带的
A passing mention or reference is brief and is made while you are talking or writing about something else.
6. 顺便;顺带
If you mention something in passing, you mention it briefly while you are talking or writing about something else.
7. 持续不断地
If something changes with each passing year or with every passing day, it changes continuously.
1. success in satisfying a test or requirement
e.g. his future depended on his passing that test
he got a pass in introductory chemistry
Synonym: passqualifying
2. going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it
e.g. she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me
Synonym: overtaking
3. (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
e.g. the coach sent in a passing play on third and long
Synonym: passpassing playpassing game
4. a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
e.g. the passage of air from the lungs
the passing of flatus
Synonym: passage
5. the end of something
e.g. the passing of winter
6. the motion of one object relative to another
e.g. stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets
Synonym: passage
7. euphemistic expressions for death
e.g. thousands mourned his passing