The other day on the blog the Oxford Etymologist Anatoly Liberman just happened to mention in passing that the word "window" evolved from an earlier pair of words "wind" and "eye."

某一天，牛津词源学家Anatoly Liberman正好在他的博客上顺笔提到，window(窗户)是从“风”和“眼睛”这一对词演变而来。

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I mention this point now in passing and shall refer to it again.

这一点现在顺便提一下，以后还会讲到。

《新英汉大辞典》

If you would like this to happen but realistically are going to struggle do not promise it or even mention it in passing as business users will hear something and take it as the Gospel.

如果你想要实现这些，那么事实上请不要做出任何许诺甚至不要提到它，以免企业用户将听到些什么并奉为真理。

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I'll mention,just in passing, that these thought experiments that I'm about to give, Bernard Williams I'm going to give a pair of them,come from Bernard Williams, who's a British philosopher.

顺便一提，我即将做的两个思考实验，是源于，一位英国哲学家。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

However you only mention in passing that there is much stronger evidence that particular policing strategies can reduce crime.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Mention in passing that you have an early morning the next day and a coffee press setup appears unbidden in your room that night.

FORBES: Lifestyle Feature

Nor did he mention even in passing that the demise of Saddam Hussein 's Baath Party regime (not to mention the presumed demise of Saddam himself) rids key OPEC nations Saudi Arabia and Kuwait (not to mention Qatar itself) of a persistent threat.

FORBES: OPEC Enjoying Peace Dividend