| 词汇 | pass off |
| 释义 | pass offpass off phrasal verbphr v a) pass off well/badly etcWAY/MANNER if an event passes off well, badly etc, it happens in that way 进行顺利/不顺利等 The visit passed off without any serious incidents. 这次访问没有发生太大的意外。 b) pass somebody/something off as something to make people think that someone or something is another thing 把某人/某物冒充为… 假称某人/某物是… They bought up pieces of old furniture and passed them off as valuable antiques. 他们收购旧家具，然后假称它们是值钱的古董。 He passed himself off as a doctor. 他谎称自己是医生。 Examples from the Corpus pass somebody/something off as something• This is the kind of thing a man who passes himself off as a fashion consultant can be expected to know.• As a childless wife can only suffer, there would be no point in passing an intersexual off as a woman.• Though the doubt is really an expression of not-being-committed, it passes itself off as an excuse for not-committing.• Equally, it is an offence for a private company to pass itself off as being a public company and viceversa.• I wonder how many years unqualified people could pass themselves off as consultant thoracic surgeons, for example, without detection.• They tried to pass the crystals off as diamonds.• Anyone trying to pass these absurdities off as fiction would have been laughed out of Hollywood.• We could go in and pass ourselves off as invited guests by being brazen.• But what more could you expect from the bunch of monkeys trying to pass themselves off as judges?• The agents managed to pass themselves off as wealthy businessmen. → pass off at pass1(PHRASAL VERB) |
| 随便看 |
|
时代网英语在线翻译词典收录了283110条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。