passoffとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

pass off (三人称単数 現在形 passes off, 現在分詞 passing off, 過去形および過去分詞形 passed off)

1. (intransitive) To happen.

   The millennium passed off without any disasters.

2. (transitive) To give something (to someone).
   • 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. (transitive, reflexive) To misrepresent something.

   He tried to pass off the imitation Rolex as genuine.

4. To abate, to cease gradually.
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 55”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers by arrangement with George H. Doran Company, OCLC 365836:

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

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:

     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.