A filter is designed to reject some substances, while permitting others to pass through.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The civilization of the West, however, was not the result of some inevitable process through which other cultures will automatically pass.

然而,西方文明的发展之路,并非经历了其他文明必经之途中,一些不可避免的发展过程

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It is the case -- to introduce some jargon -- it is the case that the easy pass for the attacker, weakly dominates the hard pass for the attacker.

对入侵者来说,我们再词引入术语,对入侵者而言,平坦之途,弱优于崎岖之途

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But the bill could not pass without the support of some of them.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

So, I said, okay, I didn't want to assume so we clicked senior and frankly it was then a dead end because apparently to get some senior discount you need to have some special pass or something like this that we didn't have and yet that certainly wasn't obvious here so now we together and this person in particular had to figure out how you go back and then restart this process.

我说，好的，我不希望揣测，所以我点击了老人票,然后问题就来了，因为似乎,需要特殊的号码之类的东西来购买老年票,但是我们没有,明显我们不应该走这步,现在我们一起必须找出,怎样返回，然后重新开始这个步骤。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

You know, even some goes pass you on the street and you don't smile ostensibly you don't smile-- there are certain micro-muscles in your face that are moving that actually make you feel better.

即使路人与你擦身而过时，你没笑,表面上你没有笑-,但你面部的细微肌肉,会收缩，让你感觉更好。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Because in doing that, Python would then have a value that it could pass on into some other part of a computation, and if it wasn't what I wanted, I might be a long ways downstream in the computation before I actually hit some result that makes no sense.

因为如果这样做的话，Python会将,输入的值传递到下面的,一些运算中去，如果这个值的类型不是我想要的，我可能会在得到,一个毫无意义的结果之前,经历一个很长时间的,计算过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选